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Content Services Components

CA DataMinder Content Services comprises the following components.

Content Database

The content database is the engine or system that contains indexed versions of events captured by CA DataMinder agents. Events are stored in the content database as text-searchable documents.

The current CA DataMinder release uses content database technology provided by Autonomy IDOL. You can install the IDOL content database included with CA DataMinder or you can use an existing IDOL content database.

Note: Although this guide refers to a single IDOL content database, under the hood this single database actually comprises multiple databases. These multiple databases are similar to conventional database partitions, splitting the overall content database into sections based on indexing timestamps.

CA DataMinder IDOL Connector

The CA DataMinder IDOL Connector enables the CA DataMinder content indexer and content proxy server to communicate with an IDOL content database.

All communication between the CA DataMinder components and the IDOL content database passes through the IDOL connector framework.

IDOL Connector Framework

The IDOL connector framework extracts the text content from files and emails submitted by the CA DataMinder content indexer and forwards the text content to the content database.

When you install the CA DataMinder IDOL Connector, you can also install the IDOL connector framework included with CA DataMinder or you can use an existing IDOL connector framework.

Content Indexer

The content indexer submits events from the CMS to a content database, where the events are stored as indexed documents. The content indexer comprises a service and console:

• The content indexer service monitors your CMS for newly captured data and indexes specified data into your content database.
• The content indexer console lets you run indexing jobs. For usage instructions, see the content indexer console online help.

Content Proxy Server

The content proxy server enables the iConsole or Data Management console to access a content database when running a content search.

Each content proxy server is tied to a single parent CMS. Multiple proxy servers can share a parent CMS.

Content Searches

Content searches use intelligent pattern-matching technology to analyze the text content of indexed events in a content database and retrieve events that match the search criteria.

Reviewers run content searches from the iConsole or Data Management console.

Note: Content searches only support the Management Group security model. If a reviewer has a different security model and runs a content search, the search returns zero events.