Crawler Responsibilities

• The crawler works with native API calls that communicate with the domain controller and the DFS namespace servers.
• The crawler:
• Creates the DFS resources tree
• Creates mapping between the DFS links resources and physical applications resources.
• The crawler can only map DFS links to physical shares in the File Access Manager database. Therefore, before the DFS crawler runs, the shares in the physical applications must have already been found. If a physical share is not found for a DFS link, the crawler will issue an “unfound target” warning in the task details.