# IDOL Components

IDOL Server has a number of constituent components, each of which is an ACI Server providing a set of APIs for particular use-cases.

- IDOL Content. The primary text index.

Rich Media

- IDOL Rich Media. Rich media processing.

Ingestion

TIP: Micro Focus recommends that you ingest data using IDOL NiFi Ingest. NiFi Ingest allows you to run both IDOL connectors and data enrichment tasks in the open source Apache NiFi framework.

- Connectors retrieve information from data repositories.
- Connector Framework Server (CFS). Coordinates the processing of information retrieved by connectors, and indexes the information into the IDOL index.

Security and Users

- IDOL Community. User security and profiling.
- OmniGroupServer. User security helper module.

Distribution

- IDOL Proxy. Automatic command redirection to the primary components.
- Distributed Action Handler (DAH). Query distribution.
- Distributed Index Handler (DIH). Index action distribution.

Administration

- License Server. License handling.

Others

- IDOL Agentstore. A specially configured IDOL Content component for storing agents and categories.
- IDOL Category. Categorization and clustering.
- IDOL View. Native-document viewing and highlighting.
- Query Manipulation Server (QMS). Query manipulation and administration.
- Eduction Server. Entity extraction.

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