Elastic network drive connector reference
editElastic network drive connector reference
editThe Elastic network drive connector is a connector for network drive data sources.
Availability and prerequisites
editThis connector is available as a native connector on Elastic Cloud, as of 8.9.1.
This connector is available as a self-managed connector client using the Elastic connector framework.
This connector client is compatible with Elastic versions 8.6.0+.
To use this connector, satisfy all connector client requirements.
Usage
editTo use this connector as a native connector, see Native connectors (managed service).
To use this connector as a connector client, see Connector clients.
Configuration
editWhen using the connector client workflow, initially these fields will use the default configuration set in the connector source code.
These are set in the get_default_configuration
function definition.
These configurable fields will be rendered with their respective labels in the Kibana UI. Once connected, you’ll be able to update these values in Kibana.
The following configuration fields are required to set up the connector:
-
username
- The username of the account for the network drive. The user must have at least read permissions for the folder path provided.
-
password
- The password of the account to be used for crawling the network drive.
-
server_ip
-
The server IP address where the network drive is hosted.
Default value is
127.0.0.1
. -
server_port
-
The server port where the network drive service is available.
Default value is
445
. -
drive_path
-
-
The network drive path the connector will crawl to fetch files.
This is the name of the folder shared via SMB.
The connector uses the Python
smbprotocol
library which supports both SMB v2 and v3. - Accepts only one path— parent folders can be specified to widen the scope.
-
The drive path should use forward slashes as path separators. Example:
-
admin/bin
-
-
The network drive path the connector will crawl to fetch files.
This is the name of the folder shared via SMB.
The connector uses the Python
Deployment using Docker
editYou can deploy the Network drive connector as a self-managed connector client using Docker. Follow these instructions.
Step 1: Download sample configuration file
Download the sample configuration file. You can either download it manually or run the following command:
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elastic/connectors/main/config.yml.example --output ~/connectors-config/config.yml
Remember to update the --output
argument value if your directory name is different, or you want to use a different config file name.
Step 2: Update the configuration file for your self-managed connector
Update the configuration file with the following settings to match your environment:
-
elasticsearch.host
-
elasticsearch.api_key
-
connectors
If you’re running the connector service against a Dockerized version of Elasticsearch and Kibana, your config file will look like this:
# When connecting to your cloud deployment you should edit the host value elasticsearch.host: http://host.docker.internal:9200 elasticsearch.api_key: <ELASTICSEARCH_API_KEY> connectors: - connector_id: <CONNECTOR_ID_FROM_KIBANA> service_type: network_drive api_key: <CONNECTOR_API_KEY_FROM_KIBANA>
Using the elasticsearch.api_key
is the recommended authentication method. However, you can also use elasticsearch.username
and elasticsearch.password
to authenticate with your Elasticsearch instance.
Note: You can change other default configurations by simply uncommenting specific settings in the configuration file and modifying their values.
Step 3: Run the Docker image
Run the Docker image with the Connector Service using the following command:
docker run \ -v ~/connectors-config:/config \ --network "elastic" \ --tty \ --rm \ docker.elastic.co/enterprise-search/elastic-connectors:8.10.4.0 \ /app/bin/elastic-ingest \ -c /config/config.yml
Refer to DOCKER.md
in the elastic/connectors
repo for more details.
Find all available Docker images in the official registry.
Documents and syncs
editThe connector syncs folders as separate documents in Elasticsearch.
The following fields will be added for the document type folder
:
-
create_time
-
title
-
path
-
modified
-
time
-
id
- Files bigger than 10 MB won’t be extracted.
- Permission are not synced. All documents indexed to an Elastic deployment will be visible to all users with access to that Elastic Deployment.
Sync rules
editBasic sync rules are identical for all connectors and are available by default.
Advanced sync rules
editA full sync is required for advanced sync rules to take effect.
Advanced sync rules are defined through a source-specific DSL JSON snippet. Advanced sync rules for this connector use glob patterns.
- Each rule must contains a glob pattern. This pattern is then matched against all the available folder paths inside the configured drive path.
-
The pattern must begin with the
drive_path
field configured in the connector. - If the pattern matches any available folder paths, the contents directly within those folders will be fetched.
The following sections provide examples of advanced sync rules for this connector.
Indexing files and folders recursively within folders
edit[ { "pattern": "Folder-shared/a/mock/**" }, { "pattern": "Folder-shared/b/alpha/**" } ]
Indexing files and folders directly inside folder
edit[ { "pattern": "Folder-shared/a/b/test" } ]
Indexing files and folders directly inside a set of folders
edit[ { "pattern": "Folder-shared/org/*/all-tests/test[135]" } ]
Excluding files and folders that match a pattern
edit[ { "pattern": "Folder-shared/**/all-tests/test[!7]" } ]
Content extraction
editSee Content extraction.
End-to-end tests
editThe connector framework enables operators to run functional tests against a real data source. Refer to Connector testing for more details.
To execute a functional test for the Network Drive connector client, run the following command:
$ make ftest NAME=network_drive
By default, this will use a medium-sized dataset.
For faster tests add the DATA_SIZE=small
flag:
make ftest NAME=network_drive DATA_SIZE=small
Known issues
edit-
Network Drive Connector may fail to connect to some shares
In versions prior to 8.15.3, the Network Drive Connector used an older version of the
smbprotocol
Python library. This version could incorrectly determine protocol parameters if the requesting host met specific edge case criteria.You can read more about this bug here: https://github.com/jborean93/smbprotocol/issues/199
If your Network Drive Connector is failing to connect to your share, consider updating to versions >= 8.15.3.
See Known issues for any issues affecting all connectors.
Troubleshooting
editSee Troubleshooting.
Security
editSee Security.
Framework and source
editThis connector is included in the Elastic connector framework.
View the source code for this connector (branch 8.10, compatible with Elastic 8.10).