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Prerequisites

1. You need to install the MS Exchange Crawler by following the MS Exchange Installation and Administration guide.
2. To understand the basics of working with Crawlers, please read the Working with Crawlers guide first.

Creating Crawler

Navigate to Crawlers in the Cogniware Data Collector administration (accessible at https://192.168.112.212/datacollector).

Click on Add Crawler button.

Fill in the Name of the Crawler, you may also add Description.

For the Crawler configuration, you need to provide the following parameters:

• Connector Class: Select the Connector Class you have installed in MS Exchange Installation and Administration.
• Connectors: Select the MS Exchange connector you want to use. To configure the Connector please follow MS Exchange Installation and Administration - for each MS Exchange site you need a separate connector.
  
• Object Typer: Select mails
• mailboxes: List of the mailboxes to be crawled separated with “,” (e.g. email1@test.com,email2@test.com)
• Data Handler: Select Data Handler you created in MS Exchange Installation and Administration.

Click the Add Crawler button.

Congratulations! Crawler configuration is done. We can start crawling!

Please reffer to Working with Crawlers on how to start, stop or change the Crawler.