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3.2 Provider

The provider is the piece of Searchy that manages the details of a particular data source, like a data base manager. Configuration of the providers depends on its type, if it is an SQL it will need a user and password meanwhile if it is a LDAP provider it will need a context. For a detailed description of the different parameters of each type of providers, check out the example config file.

There are three attributes common for all types of providers:

name
Name that identify current provider, it is only used to locate the provider within the agent.
type
The type of agent. This version of Searchy has the following types of available agents.
map
The map the the provider will use. This map have to be one of the available in the labels map.


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2004-05-20