Configure OAuth Authentication

This section describes how to obtain OAuth tokens, which the connector needs to retrieve content from OneDrive.

NOTE: There is no need to complete this procedure if you ran the OAuth configuration tool when the connector was installed.

To obtain OAuth tokens

  1. Open the folder where you installed the connector.
  2. Open the file oauth_tool.cfg in a text editor.
  3. In the [Default] section, specify any SSL or proxy settings necessary to connect to OneDrive:

    SSLMethod The version of SSL/TLS to use.
    ProxyHost The host name or IP address of the proxy server that the connector must use.
    ProxyPort The port of the proxy server that the connector must use.

    For example:

    SSLMethod=NEGOTIATE
    ProxyHost=10.0.0.1
    ProxyPort=8080
  4. Make the following configuration changes:

  5. Save and close the file.
  6. Open a command-line window and run the relevant command:

    Your default web browser opens to the OneDrive web site. The web page asks you to authorize the connector to access OneDrive.

  7. Authorize the application. You must use the username and password of an account that has permission to view everything that you want to ingest (such as an administrator account).

    OneDrive provides the OAuth tokens, and the OAuth configuration tool creates a file named oauth.cfg. This contains the parameters that the connector requires to authenticate with OneDrive. These parameters are automatically included in the connector configuration file, because the connector configuration file includes the following line to import the parameters into the [MyTask] section:

    [MyTask] < "oauth.cfg" [OAUTH]

    For more information about including parameters from another file, see Include an External Configuration File. The OAuth tool also prints the parameters it has set to the command-line window so that you can set these directly in the connector's configuration file if you prefer.


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