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Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) - Amazon Kendra
Supported featuresPrerequisitesConnection instructions

Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) is a fully managed, cloud based file server system that offers shared storage capabilities. If you're an Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) user, you can use Amazon Kendra to index your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) data source.

You can connect Amazon Kendra to your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) data source using the Amazon Kendra console, or the TemplateConfiguration API.

For troubleshooting your Amazon Kendra Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) data source connector, see Troubleshooting data sources.

Supported features

Amazon Kendra Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) data source connector supports the following features:

  • Field mappings

  • User access control

  • Inclusion and exclusion filters

  • Full and incremental content syncs

  • Virtual private cloud (VPC)

Prerequisites

Before you can use Amazon Kendra to index your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) data source, check the details of your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) and AWS accounts.

For Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP), make sure you have:

  • Set up Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) with read and mounting permissions.

  • Noted your file system ID. You can find your file system ID on the File Systems dashboard in the Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) console.

  • Noted the storage virtual machine (SVM) ID used with your file system. You can find your SVM ID by going to the File Systems dashboard in the Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) console, selecting your file system ID, and then selecting Storage virtual machines.

  • Configured a virtual private cloud using Amazon VPC where your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system resides.

  • Noted your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) authentication credentials for an Active Directory user account. This includes your Active Directory user name with your DNS domain name (for example, user@corp.example.com) and password. If you use the Network File System (NFS) protocol for your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system, the authentication credentials include a left ID, right ID, and pre-shared key.

    Note

    Use only the necessary credentials required for the connector to function. Do not use privileged credentials like domain admin.

    Note

    We recommend that you regularly refresh or rotate your credentials and secret. Provide only the necessary access level for your own security. We do not recommend that you re-use credentials and secrets across data sources, and connector versions 1.0 and 2.0 (where applicable).

  • Checked each document is unique in Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) and across other data sources you plan to use for the same index. Each data source that you want to use for an index must not contain the same document across the data sources. Document IDs are global to an index and must be unique per index.

In your AWS account, make sure you have:

  • Created an Amazon Kendra index and, if using the API, noted the index ID.

  • Created an IAM role for your data source and, if using the API, noted the ARN of the IAM role.

    Note

    If you change your authentication type and credentials, you must update your IAM role to access the correct AWS Secrets Manager secret ID.

  • Stored your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) authentication credentials in an AWS Secrets Manager secret and, if using the API, noted the ARN of the secret.

    Note

    We recommend that you regularly refresh or rotate your credentials and secret. Provide only the necessary access level for your own security. We do not recommend that you re-use credentials and secrets across data sources, and connector versions 1.0 and 2.0 (where applicable).

If you don’t have an existing IAM role or secret, you can use the console to create a new IAM role and Secrets Manager secret when you connect your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) data source to Amazon Kendra. If you are using the API, you must provide the ARN of an existing IAM role and Secrets Manager secret, and an index ID.

Connection instructions

To connect Amazon Kendra to your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) data source, you must provide the necessary details of your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) data source so that Amazon Kendra can access your data. If you have not yet configured Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) for Amazon Kendra, see Prerequisites.

Console

To connect Amazon Kendra to your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon Kendra console.

  2. From the left navigation pane, choose Indexes and then choose the index you want to use from the list of indexes.

    Note

    You can choose to configure or edit your User access control settings under Index settings.

  3. On the Getting started page, choose Add data source.

  4. On the Add data source page, choose Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) connector, and then choose Add connector. If using version 2 (if applicable), choose Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) connector with the "V2.0" tag.

  5. On the Specify data source details page, enter the following information:

    1. In Name and description, for Data source name—Enter a name for your data source. You can include hyphens but not spaces.

    2. (Optional) Description—Enter an optional description for your data source.

    3. In Default language—Choose a language to filter your documents for the index. Unless you specify otherwise, the language defaults to English. Language specified in the document metadata overrides the selected language.

    4. In Tags, for Add new tag—Include optional tags to search and filter your resources or track your AWS costs.

    5. Choose Next.

  6. On the Define access and security page, enter the following information:

    1. Source—Provide your file system information.

      • File system protocol—Choose the protocol of your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system. You can choose either Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, or the Network File System (NFS) protocol for Linux.

      • Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system ID—Select from the dropdown your existing file system ID, fetched from Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP). Or, create an Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system. You can find your file system ID on the File Systems dashboard in the Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) console.

      • SVM ID (Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) for NetApp ONTAP only)—Provide the storage virtual machine (SVM) ID of your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) NetApp ONTAP. You can find your SVM ID by going to the File Systems dashboard in the Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) console, selecting your file system ID, and selecting Storage virtual machines.

    2. Authorization—Turn on or off access control list (ACL) information for your documents, if you have an ACL and want to use it for access control. The ACL specifies which documents that users and groups can access. The ACL information is used to filter search results based on the user or their group access to documents. For more information, see User context filtering.

    3. Authentication—Choose an existing AWS Secrets Manager secret, or create a new secret to store your file system credentials. If you choose to create a new secret, an AWS Secrets Manager secret window opens.

      Provide a secret that stores your authentication credentials of your user name and password. The user name must include your DNS domain name. For example, user@corp.example.com.

      If you use the NFS protocol for your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system, provide a secret that stores your authentication credentials of left ID, right ID, and pre-shared key.

      Save and add your secret.

    4. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)—You must select an Amazon VPC where your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) resides. You include the VPC subnet and security groups. See Configuring an Amazon VPC.

    5. IAM role—Choose an existing IAM role or create a new IAM role to access your repository credentials and index content.

      Note

      IAM roles used for indexes cannot be used for data sources. If you are unsure if an existing role is used for an index or FAQ, choose Create a new role to avoid errors.

    6. Choose Next.

  7. On the Configure sync settings page, enter the following information:

    1. Sync scope, Regex patterns—Add regular expression patterns to include or exclude certain files.

    2. Sync mode—Choose how you want to update your index when your data source content changes. When you sync your data source with Amazon Kendra for the first time, all content is crawled and indexed by default. You must run a full sync of your data if your initial sync failed, even if you don't choose full sync as your sync mode option.

      • Full sync: Freshly index all content, replacing existing content each time your data source syncs with your index.

      • New, modified, deleted sync: Index only new, modified, and deleted content each time your data source syncs with your index. Amazon Kendra can use your data source's mechanism for tracking content changes and index content that changed since the last sync.

    3. Sync run schedule—For Frequency, choose how often to sync your data source content and update your index.

    4. Choose Next.

  8. On the Set field mappings page, enter the following information:

    1. Select from the Amazon Kendra generated default fields of your files that you want to map to your index. To add custom data source fields, create an index field name to map to and the field data type.

    2. Choose Next.

  9. On the Review and create page, check that the information you have entered is correct and then select Add data source. You can also choose to edit your information from this page. Your data source will appear on the Data sources page after the data source has been added successfully.

API

To connect Amazon Kendra to your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system

You must specify a JSON of the data source schema using the TemplateConfiguration API. You must provide the following information:

  • Data source—Specify the data source type as FSXONTAP when you use the TemplateConfiguration JSON schema. Also specify the data source as TEMPLATE when you call the CreateDataSource API.

  • File system ID—The identifier of the Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system. You can find your file system ID on the File Systems dashboard in the Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) console.

  • SVM ID—The storage virtual machine (SVM) ID used with your file system. You can find your SVM ID by going to the File Systems dashboard in the Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) console, selecting your file system ID, and then selecting Storage virtual machines.

  • Protocol type—Specify whether you use the Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, or the Network File System (NFS) protocol for Linux.

  • File system type—Specify the type of file system as either FSXONTAP.

  • Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)—Specify VpcConfiguration when you call CreateDataSource. For more information, see Configuring Amazon Kendra to use an Amazon VPC.

    Note

    You must select an Amazon VPC where your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) resides. You include the VPC subnet and security groups.

  • Secret Amazon Resource Name (ARN)—Provide the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an Secrets Manager secret that contains the authentication credentials for your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) account. The secret is stored in a JSON structure with the following keys:

    {
    "username": "user@corp.example.com",
    "password": "password"
}

    If you use the NFS protocol for your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system, the secret is stored in a JSON structure with the following keys:

    {
    "leftId": "left ID",
    "rightId": "right ID",
    "preSharedKey": "pre-shared key"
}

  • IAM role—Specify RoleArn when you call CreateDataSource to provide an IAM role with permissions to access your Secrets Manager secret and to call the required public APIs for the Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) connector and Amazon Kendra. For more information, see IAM roles for Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) data sources.

You can also add the following optional features:

  • Sync mode—Specify how Amazon Kendra should update your index when your data source content changes. When you sync your data source with Amazon Kendra for the first time, all content is crawled and indexed by default. You must run a full sync of your data if your initial sync failed, even if you don't choose full sync as your sync mode option. You can choose between:

    • FORCED_FULL_CRAWL to freshly index all content, replacing existing content each time your data source syncs with your index.

    • FULL_CRAWL to index only new, modified, and deleted content each time your data source syncs with your index. Amazon Kendra can use your data source’s mechanism for tracking content changes and index content that changed since the last sync.

  • Inclusion and exclusion filters—Specify whether to include or exclude certain files.

    Note

    Most data sources use regular expression patterns, which are inclusion or exclusion patterns referred to as filters. If you specify an inclusion filter, only content that matches the inclusion filter is indexed. Any document that doesn’t match the inclusion filter isn’t indexed. If you specify an inclusion and exclusion filter, documents that match the exclusion filter are not indexed, even if they match the inclusion filter.

  • Access control list (ACL)—Specify whether to crawl ACL information for your documents, if you have an ACL and want to use it for access control. The ACL specifies which documents that users and groups can access. The ACL information is used to filter search results based on the user or their group access to documents. For more information, see User context filtering.

    Note

    To test user context filtering on a user, you must include the DNS domain name as part of the user name when you issue the query. You must have administrative permissions of the Active Directory domain. You can also test user context filtering on a group name.

  • Field mappings—Choose to map your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) data source fields to your Amazon Kendra index fields. For more information, see Mapping data source fields.

    Note

    The document body field or the document body equivalent for your documents is required in order for Amazon Kendra to search your documents. You must map your document body field name in your data source to the index field name _document_body. All other fields are optional.

For a list of other important JSON keys to configure, see Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) template schema.

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To connect Amazon Kendra to your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon Kendra console.

  2. From the left navigation pane, choose Indexes and then choose the index you want to use from the list of indexes.

    Note

    You can choose to configure or edit your User access control settings under Index settings.

  3. On the Getting started page, choose Add data source.

  4. On the Add data source page, choose Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) connector, and then choose Add connector. If using version 2 (if applicable), choose Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) connector with the "V2.0" tag.

  5. On the Specify data source details page, enter the following information:

    1. In Name and description, for Data source name—Enter a name for your data source. You can include hyphens but not spaces.

    2. (Optional) Description—Enter an optional description for your data source.

    3. In Default language—Choose a language to filter your documents for the index. Unless you specify otherwise, the language defaults to English. Language specified in the document metadata overrides the selected language.

    4. In Tags, for Add new tag—Include optional tags to search and filter your resources or track your AWS costs.

    5. Choose Next.

  6. On the Define access and security page, enter the following information:

    1. Source—Provide your file system information.

      • File system protocol—Choose the protocol of your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system. You can choose either Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, or the Network File System (NFS) protocol for Linux.

      • Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system ID—Select from the dropdown your existing file system ID, fetched from Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP). Or, create an Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system. You can find your file system ID on the File Systems dashboard in the Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) console.

      • SVM ID (Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) for NetApp ONTAP only)—Provide the storage virtual machine (SVM) ID of your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) NetApp ONTAP. You can find your SVM ID by going to the File Systems dashboard in the Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) console, selecting your file system ID, and selecting Storage virtual machines.

    2. Authorization—Turn on or off access control list (ACL) information for your documents, if you have an ACL and want to use it for access control. The ACL specifies which documents that users and groups can access. The ACL information is used to filter search results based on the user or their group access to documents. For more information, see User context filtering.

    3. Authentication—Choose an existing AWS Secrets Manager secret, or create a new secret to store your file system credentials. If you choose to create a new secret, an AWS Secrets Manager secret window opens.

      Provide a secret that stores your authentication credentials of your user name and password. The user name must include your DNS domain name. For example, user@corp.example.com.

      If you use the NFS protocol for your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) file system, provide a secret that stores your authentication credentials of left ID, right ID, and pre-shared key.

      Save and add your secret.

    4. Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)—You must select an Amazon VPC where your Amazon FSx (NetApp ONTAP) resides. You include the VPC subnet and security groups. See Configuring an Amazon VPC.

    5. IAM role—Choose an existing IAM role or create a new IAM role to access your repository credentials and index content.

      Note

      IAM roles used for indexes cannot be used for data sources. If you are unsure if an existing role is used for an index or FAQ, choose Create a new role to avoid errors.

    6. Choose Next.

  7. On the Configure sync settings page, enter the following information:

    1. Sync scope, Regex patterns—Add regular expression patterns to include or exclude certain files.

    2. Sync mode—Choose how you want to update your index when your data source content changes. When you sync your data source with Amazon Kendra for the first time, all content is crawled and indexed by default. You must run a full sync of your data if your initial sync failed, even if you don't choose full sync as your sync mode option.

      • Full sync: Freshly index all content, replacing existing content each time your data source syncs with your index.

      • New, modified, deleted sync: Index only new, modified, and deleted content each time your data source syncs with your index. Amazon Kendra can use your data source's mechanism for tracking content changes and index content that changed since the last sync.

    3. Sync run schedule—For Frequency, choose how often to sync your data source content and update your index.

    4. Choose Next.

  8. On the Set field mappings page, enter the following information:

    1. Select from the Amazon Kendra generated default fields of your files that you want to map to your index. To add custom data source fields, create an index field name to map to and the field data type.

    2. Choose Next.

  9. On the Review and create page, check that the information you have entered is correct and then select Add data source. You can also choose to edit your information from this page. Your data source will appear on the Data sources page after the data source has been added successfully.

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