Hi,
a ConnId Connector Server [1] can be essentially seen as a remote
container for connector bundles.
Normally, Syncope is configured to look up for connector bundles from a
local directory, but there are more options [2], including referencing
connector servers.
Once a (Java or .Net) connector server is set up and running, Syncope
will be able to use the connector bundles deployed there as if they were
instead deployed in a local directory.
As you can imagine, this is especially useful when, for example, you are
running Syncope on Linux but need to provision by using PowerShell
scripts, which require to be run on Windows.
In this case, all you need is to
1. deploy a Java connector server on Windows
2. deploy the ConnId CMD bundle [3] onto such connector server
3. write the PowerShell scripts
4. configure Syncope (as explained in [2]) for using such connector server
5. use the Admin Console to configure the CMD bundle as if it was
deployed locally
The communication between Syncope and ConnId connector servers is based
on a TCP protocol defined by ConnId, which can also use SSL (as
explained in [2]).
HTH
Regards.
On 22/02/2017 14:22, Tech wrote:
Dear experts,
we checked from the documentation that the conn bundles could be also
deployed on the target system instead of that in Syncope.
We want to understand with you if it would be possible to configure a
similar scenario and to validate if our understanding is correct:
* Syncope is deployed on Server1 and the target system on the Server2.
* Syncope calls the remote connector deployed on the Server2 (using
REST?)
* The remote connector deployed on Server2 extracts the data (SELECT
FIRSTNAME, LASTNAME FROM USER;)
* The remote connector caches the result of the query
* Syncope extract the information from the remote connector and take
them to Server1.
Is that correct?
Thanks
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Francesco Chicchiriccò
Tirasa - Open Source Excellence
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