Deploying Alfresco Connector for Content Intelligence

The Alfresco Connector for Content Intelligence (also referred to as the HxInsight Connector inside the Ansible playbooks) provides knowledge retrieval capabilities by connecting your content repository, Alfresco Content Services (ACS), to Knowledge Discovery. Knowledge Discovery allows you to apply machine learning to your content repository.

You can get the most up-to-date product documentation for the Alfresco Connector in the Content Intelligence Documentation.

Prerequisites

Alfresco Content Services Enterprise (ACS) 23 or later
Active subscription and credentials for Content Intelligence service

Deployment Steps

Configure at least one host inside the inventory file for the hxi group.
Provide your Content Intelligence credentials and related configuration parameters/URLs in the vars/hxi.yml file.
Provide hxi_remote_client_secret in the vars/secrets.yml file. Make sure to learn about Ansible Vault integration if you are doing a production deployment.
Enable knowledge discovery plugin in ADW by setting in playbooks/group_vars/adw.yml:
```
adw_app_configuration:
  plugins:
    knowledgeRetrievalEnabled: true
```
Run the Ansible playbook as for a standard deployment. Please follow the deployment guide for more details.

Verifying the Deployment

After the deployment is complete:

Log into ADW and verify that the Ask Discovery button is available in the main view

Check that both connector services are running:

systemctl status alfresco-hxinsight-connector-live-ingester

Upload a document with ADW and check the ingestion logs:

journalctl -u alfresco-hxinsight-connector-live-ingester -f

Source Code

The hxi_connector Ansible role is available as part of the Alfresco Platform Collection.