Content Collector architecture

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IBM® Content Collector consists of several components, which interact with components of your Microsoft Exchange, Lotus® Domino® , NTFS, DFS, and Novell file systems, Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Connections environments, and repository servers. See the diagram.

Diagram showing how IBM Content Collector components interact with email-servers, email clients, Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Connections, file systems, and repository servers — Figure 1. Interaction diagram including IBM Content Collector components, email clients, email servers, Microsoft SharePoint, IBM Connections, file systems, and repository servers

Source system: A system that contains documents that you want to collect with IBM Content Collector. This can be Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino , SMTP email, NTFS, DFS, and Novell file systems, or Microsoft SharePoint or IBM Connections environments.
Source connector: A source connector provides an interface to a third-party system that contains documents that you want to work with in IBM Content Collector. It is responsible for the communication between email servers, file servers, Microsoft SharePoint, or IBM Connections and IBM Content Collector. Documents that are routed to IBM Content Collector for archiving pass this layer before they are processed and stored in a repository.
Target connector: A target connector provides an interface to the third-party system that serves as the target repository for IBM Content Collector. It is responsible for the communication between a IBM Content Manager repository, a IBM FileNet® P8 repository, or a File System repository, and IBM Content Collector. Documents that are routed from IBM Content Collector for archiving pass this layer before they are stored in a repository.
Task Routing Engine: A service that monitors most of the collector services that run in IBM Content Collector.
Configuration Manager: A graphical user interface for the administration of IBM Content Collector.
Web application server: The IBM Content Collector web application server. This can be the embedded web application server or an external web application server.
Metadata Form Connector: A connector to the IBM Content Collector configuration store that is required for handling additional archiving data.
Text Extraction Connector: An interface to the Oracle Outside In Technology filters, which are used to convert binary data, for example from email attachments, into a plain-text representation.
Utility Connector: A container for those tasks that provide the intrinsic functions of IBM Content Collector.