Configure access to remote systems for federated documents

To retrieve metadata information for documents on remote content management systems, configure the federated documents feature with information about the remote system and the settings used to handle communication with the system.

Because the federated documents feature uses the AJAX proxy component to access the remote content management system, we can use the global AJAX proxy configuration to customize the outgoing HTTP traffic, such as applying specific HTTP timeout values or configuring an outbound HTTP proxy server. You must list the individual content management servers to be accessed through the federated documents feature as allowed request targets in the AJAX proxy configuration, and enable LTPA cookie forwarding for those requests. To do this, map the URL patterns for the content management server to the federated_documents_policy dynamic policy using the WP ConfigService configuration service.

1. Log in to the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console.

2. Click Resources > Resource Environment > Resource Environment Providers.

3. Click WP ConfigService.

4. Under Additional Properties, click Custom Properties.

5. Click New, and enter the property name wp.proxy.config.urlreplacement.federated_documents_policy.suffix, and set the string value to the URL pattern of the content management server. For example, to enable the federated documents feature to access information from the content management server ecm.example.com on port 10038 over HTTP:

   wp.proxy.config.urlreplacement.federated_documents_policy.1=http://ecm.example.com:10038/*
   

   The value of the property key suffix can be any value as long as it is unique within the set of keys mapping to the federated_documents_policy dynamic policy.

6. Create additional properties as needed for any other content management servers that you need to access through the federated documents feature.

7. Optional: The federated documents feature can also consume arbitrary ATOM feeds. To enable this, we can map the URL prefix of the ATOM feed to the default_policy dynamic policy.

   1. Click New, and enter the property name wp.proxy.config.urlreplacement.default_policy.suffix, and set the string value to the URL pattern of the server providing the ATOM feed. For example, to enable the federated documents feature to access ATOM feeds from the server www.example.com:

      wp.proxy.config.urlreplacement.default_policy.1=http://www.example.com/*
      

      The value of the property key suffix can be any value as long as it is unique within the set of keys mapping to the default_policy dynamic policy.

      Important: To prevent security token forwarding to untrusted servers, be sure that you do not use the federated_documents_policy dynamic policy for those servers.

   2. Create additional properties as needed for any other ATOM feed servers that you need to access through the federated documents feature.

8. Save the changes, and restart the portal server.

Parent: Set up support for federated documents

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Set service configuration properties