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ControlPoint Connector InsertFailed folder consuming too much disk space

Keith Lynch

During a failed connector INSERT action, the Connector will copy the failed file and an XML file containing the failure details to the Connector InsertFailed directory. If there are a large number of failures or you are applying policy to some large files…
- over 2 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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How to integrate custom connectors with ControlPoint.

Keith Lynch

If you would like to know how to add additional connectors with ControlPoint, such as OneDrive, FTP or Jama then have a read at the following knowledge document. https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000003964?language=en_US
- over 2 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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How do I configure the SharePoint Remote Connector to only crawl Files and List Item Attachments

Keith Lynch

The content in SharePoint is organized in the following structure. The IndexSites , IndexLists , and IndexFolders connector cfg settings specify whether to index a metadata-only document for each container object (highlighted in…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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How to add and troubleshoot Custom Grammars in ControlPoint

Keith Lynch

Within the ControlPoint console, go to Administration > Custom Grammar You will need to create a new grammar for each entity within your grammar file. The Description fields are what will be displayed in ControlPoint when adding the Grammar…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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Exclude a file from scan

Jean-Michel Guiral

ISSUE: ControlPoint allows to exclude files when scanning sources. The graphical interface gives the possibility to exclude file extensions. What if I want to exclude a specific file. HOW TO STEPS: The connector configuration file gives you more…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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CP to Export list of items with metadata in a CSV

Jean-Michel Guiral

ControlPoint allows the data analysts to export a list of items in a CSV file with the desired associated metadata. Go to the report, as known as category, in the list of items. Select those you want to export in the list. Go to ACTIONS and select…
- over 3 years ago
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ControlPoint simplified database model

Jean-Michel Guiral

For those that want to do SQL queries or Power BI reports for example, here is a simplified schema of the database with the main tables and fields that you will need for most of custom reports.
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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List docs successfully ingested into CP MetaStore

Jean-Michel Guiral

You may, sometimes, want to be sure about the number of documents that have been scanned and recorded in the metadata database (MetaStore). First, you will need the ID of the repository concerned. Run the following SQL script (with SQL Server Management…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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Create CFS notifications to scan Content Manager with ControlPoint

Jean-Michel Guiral

When you scan Content Manager with ControlPoint, don’t forget to activate CFS notifications on Content Manager side. This populates the TSNOTIFICA table in Content Manager that is used by ControlPoint connector to get the files.
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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CP temp files location

Jean-Michel Guiral

By default files are written to “%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp”, %WINDIR%\TEMP and also the specific connector framework\temp during the CFS indexing phase. To prevent these files being written to the above locations: 1) Open FileSystem Connector…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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Administrators in ControlPoint

Jean-Michel Guiral

When you first install ControlPoint, you need to define an administrator. That is the account that will have to be use the first time you access the web interface. From there, you will be able to define other administrators. The configuration of the…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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Map CP metadata to Content Manager fields

Jean-Michel Guiral

ISSUE: ControlPoint can work in conjunction with Content Manager. In that configuration, CP declares automatically records into CM. During this step, it is possible to transfer CP metadata to CM fields. This can be a mapping to any of CM fields, including…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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Enabling ControlPoint Insert Configuration

Jean-Michel Guiral

ISSUE: ControlPoint allows mapping fields with the target repositories of information. With that, you can send metadata captured by ControlPoint to the target application. For example, you collect social security numbers from documents with entity extraction…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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ControlPoint communication ports between components

Jean-Michel Guiral

All ControlPoint components can be distributed for scalability. In order to communicate with each other, network port will need to be opened accordingly. See the list of port for the different services. 9080, IDOL Component : View 9081, IDOL Component…
- over 3 years ago
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Match special characters with ControlPoint Eduction

Jean-Michel Guiral

ISSUE: With ControlPoint, you have the possibility to match patterns as a regulation expression. For example, (([\ ]90)|([0][0-9]?)|(\ \(90\))|([\ ]([ ]?)\([0-9]{2}\))|(\(\ 90\))|([90]*))([ ]?)((\([0-9]{3}\))|([0-9]{3}))([ ]?)([0-9]{3})(\s*[\-]?)([0…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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Configure ControlPoint with MediaServer OCR

Jean-Michel Guiral

ISSUE: Some may find the instructions in the installation guide difficult to follow and implement concerning integration with IDOL MediaServer. This is a simple way to configure MediaServer to OCR images that will be then treated by CP. HOW TO STEPS…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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Simplify the ControlPoint Ingestion Process.

Caroline Oest

The ControlPoint Ingestion process can be confusing and intensive to manage, especially if you are not working with ControlPoint and IDOL on a daily basis. Today StoreXltd are pleased to announce the next release of our "ControlPoint Ingestion Monitoring…
- over 1 year ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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ControlPoint temp file location

Jean-Michel Guiral

By default temporary files are written to “%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp”, %WINDIR%\TEMP and also the specific connector framework\temp during the CFS indexing phase. To prevent these files being written to the above locations: 1) Open FileSystem…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
- ControlPoint Tips
ControlPoint Connectors, Frameworks and Metastore Monitoring - made easy.

Caroline Oest

StoreXltd has released a new version of its ControlPoint Ingestion monitoring software utility. This utility is currently being used by a number of UK ControlPoint customers. We are providing the utility "free-of-charge" to any ControlPoint customer…
- over 1 year ago
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ControlPoint disk layout

Jean-Michel Guiral

The purpose of this brief knowledge document is to help understand the disk constraints with ControlPoint and propose layout and distribution recommendations. This concerns the database files for the MetaStore and IDOL that are disk intensive. Introduction…
- over 3 years ago
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ControlPoint performance tuning during ingestion process

Jean-Michel Guiral

This brief knowledge document deals with the performance tuning of the ingestion process in ControlPoint. It talks about the constraints on components and parameters that influence performance. Before reading this article, you may need to look at ControlPoint…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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ControlPoint ingestion process: components, architecture and flow

Jean-Michel Guiral

The purpose of this brief knowledge document is to describe the components involved in the ingestion process, how they work together and where bottlenecks or congestion points can happen. This will hopefully help understand the architecture and contribute…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText ControlPoint
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ControlPoint Connector InsertFailed folder consuming too much disk space

How to integrate custom connectors with ControlPoint.

How do I configure the SharePoint Remote Connector to only crawl Files and List Item Attachments

How to add and troubleshoot Custom Grammars in ControlPoint

Exclude a file from scan

CP to Export list of items with metadata in a CSV

ControlPoint simplified database model

List docs successfully ingested into CP MetaStore

Create CFS notifications to scan Content Manager with ControlPoint

CP temp files location

Administrators in ControlPoint

Map CP metadata to Content Manager fields

Enabling ControlPoint Insert Configuration

ControlPoint communication ports between components

Match special characters with ControlPoint Eduction

Configure ControlPoint with MediaServer OCR

Simplify the ControlPoint Ingestion Process.

ControlPoint temp file location

ControlPoint Connectors, Frameworks and Metastore Monitoring - made easy.

ControlPoint disk layout

ControlPoint performance tuning during ingestion process

ControlPoint ingestion process: components, architecture and flow

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