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You can add additional data sources from Advanced Settings → Hawksearch → DataSources submenu (your-site-domain/Sitefinity/Administration/Settings/Advanced). You should provide the Data Source with Name, Api Key, Url, Severity and Timeout interval.
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Low Severity - if Low Severity external data source fails its indexing, the indexing procedure will continue as usual.
Critical Severity
Deferred Index activation is active - while deferred index activation is active the connector will create the new index while preserving the old one so there is no downtime as the indexes are swapped. If Critical Severity data source fails its indexing or the Timeout interval is exceeded the newly created index will be removed and the system will continue using the old one.
Deffered index activation is off - the old index will be deleted and a new one will be created. The new index will be inuse as soon as it is created even if the reindexing process hasn’t finished.
When reindexing is triggered by Sitefinity, the connector will notify an external indexing service by sending the Hawksearch index name and the Api key.
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