About this task
Once the Enovia connector has been installed into your Watson™ Explorer Engine installation,
you will likely want to run several tests to determine that it is functioning correctly.
What follows are recommended steps to test the Enovia connector to ensure that it is working
properly:
Procedure
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In the Watson Explorer Engine administration tool's Configuration
tab, navigate to your site collection seed configuration display.
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Test It - Click Test It to verify initial connectivity and that the
Enovia connector is successfully communicating with Enovia.
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Confirm Authentication - Once connectivity has been successfully
tested,...
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Null Search - Perform a null search by simply clicking the search button in your
Watson Explorer Engine or Application Builder search display. If results are not displayed,
something is likely not configured properly. A null search should return all
results.
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Document Search - If results are successfully displayed, then test the search
bar by searching for a document that is already known to be part of the index. For
instance, an administrator may search for a document that they added to SharePoint
previously and therefore know that this document should be returned as a search result by
the Enovia connector.
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Security/ACLs - If a known document is successfully returned in the search
results, then test security and ACLs (access control lists) by searching first for a
document to which access should be granted based on the current account permissions, and
then for a document that should not be accessible based on the current account
permissions.
Important:
During testing, you must confirm that users can only access documents whose security
requirements are satisfied by a user's current security and access permissions. You
should test security and ACL support by using several accounts with different Enovia
permissions.
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Refresh Capability - Once that security authentication is properly confirmed,
test the refresh capability of the Enovia connector. Search for a document and note
exactly what is returned for that search. Locate the source document and modify it. Click
refresh. Confirm that the document has indeed been modified and returned successfully in a
search. Make sure that you pay attention to any time interval settings configured in the
site collection seed configuration.
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Document Count - At this point, it is suggested to test the overall document
count in the search results. Perform a search query. Note the number of results. Add a
document to Enovia and perform the same search. The total results should now be
increased.
Note:
Many of the tests here can safely be performed in a production environment. However,
it may be harder to determine their effect. For example, if you are adding documents
while other users are adding documents, it may be difficult to confirm that your
document is the one that directly impacted the search results.
Results
The Enovia connector should successfully perform each of the tests in the previous list. If
not, you may not have configured the Enovia connector correctly, or an issue may exist in
your computing environment that is preventing successful connectivity and document
retrieval. The next section lists common steps to identify and debug such problems.