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Integrating Personal ContentPersonal content integration enables the Google Search Appliance to search private and public content from your Google Apps domain and display the results with those from the search appliance's index. Search results are restricted to only the ones that the user has privileges to view. Personal content integration is supported for Google Apps Premier domains only. Personal content integration uses the Google Data (GData) APIs (www.googleapis.com) with the OAuth protocol to access secure content in your Google Apps domain. OAuth is an open standard authorization protocol that allows third parties to access user data without the need to know a user's password. All requests that the search appliance makes to Google Apps must be signed. Personal content integration only supports the HMAC (Hash-Based Message Authentication Code) signature method. Before Starting this TaskBefore the Google Search appliance can integrate personal content, the Google Apps domain administrator needs to allow the search appliance to access Google Apps search results. Google recommends that the Google Apps domain administrator and the search appliance administrator work together to establish access by performing the following steps: Registering a ClientYou, as a search appliance administrator, register a domain with Google. For example, suppose your organization is example.com, then you might want to register a domain such as www.example.com. To register a domain with Google, you need to prove ownership of the domain. This domain can be any domain for which you can prove ownership. For example, the domain might be www.example2.com. It does not have to match example.com. After you register the domain, you obtain the following information:
For information about registering a domain with Google, see "Registration for Web-Based Applications." Enabling Access to a Domain for Apps Search ScopeYou need to provide the OAuth consumer key to the Google Apps domain administrator so that she can enables access to this domain for apps search scope. The scope for apps-search is: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/appssearch To enable access to the domain, the Google Apps domain administrator uses the Google Apps control panel. Configuring Your Firewall to Pass PacketsGoogle doesn't guarantee that www.googleapis.com will resolve to an IP within any given range. For information about using a set IP address for www.googleapis.com, see "Firewall and proxy settings." To define a set IP addresses, use the Administration > DNS Override page in the Admin Console. Disabling Indexing of Public ContentAlso, before you enable personal content integration, Google recommends that you disable indexing of public content. To disable indexing of public content, use the Indexing Public Content tab. Updating to the Latest Software VersionAn update to the latest search appliance software version might be required to include enhancements from the underlying cloud-based services, such as Google Apps. About ID MappingThe Google Search Appliance's primary verified ID for any particular logged-in user needs to match For example, if the currently logged-in search appliance user has an id of rchand@example.com, If the id of the currently logged-in search appliance user does not have an "@", the domain name that administrator configured is appended. For example, if the administrator admin configures the domain name to be example.com, and the search appliance user's ID is 'rchand', it maps to the GAIA username rchand@example.com. In a rare case, the user name that is constructed by the search appliance might actually belong to a different user, and search results from Google Apps might be returned to the wrong user. About Import/ExportThe Administration > Import and Export page enables you to export search appliance configuration information to a file or import configuration information to the search appliance. To prevent the risk of Enabling Personal Content IntegrationTo enable personal content integration:
Updating a Personal Content Integration ConfigurationTo update a personal content integration configuration:
Disabling Personal Content IntegrationTo disable personal content integration, click Disable. Showing Google Apps Content in Search ResultsAfter enabling integrating personal content, you can show Google Apps in search results for a specific front end. To show Google Apps content in a front end:
Feature LimitationsIn the current search appliance release, integrating personal content has the following limitations:
For More InformationFor information about the OAuth protocol, see OAuth for Web Applications. For detailed information about cloud connect for Google Apps, see "Integrating with Google Apps," which is linked to the Google Search Appliance help center. |
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