Confluence Identities Connector - Features

Confluence Identities Connector - Features

The Confluence Identity connector will crawl content from any Confluence content repository. The connector will retrieve users, groups, and memberships.

The connector uses the Confluence REST API to crawl Confluence content, and it supports Confluence On-premise installation and also Cloud installation

Introduction


The Confluence Identity connector retrieves several types of documents. Listed below are the inclusions and exclusions of these documents.

Include

  • users

  • groups

  • memberships

Environment and Access Requirements


Repository Support

The Aspire Confluence connector was created and tested using version Confluence 7.19.2

Before installing the Confluence connector, make sure that:

  • Confluence is up and running.

  • The Confluence REST API is available.

  • You have all the certificates you need to log into the site if your Confluence instance is on a secure connection (HTTPS)

  • You have a Confluence client login with sufficient permissions to crawl documents for indexing (at least Admin level permissions)

Account Privileges

To access Confluence, a user account with sufficient privileges must be supplied. It is recommended that the account be the site administrator.

Environment Requirements

No special requirements here

Framework and Connector Features


Framework Features

Name

Supported

Name

Supported

Content Crawling

yes

Identity Crawling

no

Snapshot-based Incremental s

yes

Non-snapshot-based Incremental s

no

Document Hierarchy

no

Connector Features

The connector can operate in two modes: full and incremental.

Content Crawled


 

The Confluence connector can crawl the following objects:

Name

Type 

Relevant Metadata

Content Fetch & Extraction

Description

Name

Type 

Relevant Metadata

Content Fetch & Extraction

Description

users

 

 

NA

 

groups

 

 

NA

 

memberships

 

 

NA

 

Limitations


No limitations defined

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