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<< Click to Display Table of Contents >> Raynet One > 2026.4 > User Guide > System management > Manage your data sources > Connection Details Technology Catalog Connection |
The Technology Catalog provides structured, normalized and enriched product and technology metadata. It supports product normalization and matching, version information, EoL/EoS related information and vulnerability-related metadata in Inventory, License Management and Vulnerabilities.
For general information on setting up and editing connections, see Connection Details and Set up a connection.
Go to Configuration > Connections > Technology Catalog and click Set up..., or Edit... if it is already configured. Enter the following settings:
Setting |
Required |
Description |
|---|---|---|
URL |
Yes |
The URL of the Technology Catalog server. It must be a valid URL reachable from the Raynet One server. |
API key |
Yes |
The credential used to authenticate requests to the Technology Catalog. |
The following values are part of the Edit... dialog of the card. In the setup wizard, they appear in the Advanced settings step when you select Edit default settings.
Setting |
Default |
Description |
|---|---|---|
Timeout (ms) |
20000 |
How long Raynet One waits for a Catalog request before the attempt fails. Minimum: 1000. |
Maximum attempts |
5 |
The maximum number of attempts made for a Catalog request. |
Update interval for fingerprints (days) |
1 |
How often catalog data of fingerprints is refreshed. |
Update interval for product versions (days) |
7 |
How often catalog data of product versions is refreshed. |
Update interval for products (days) |
7 |
How often catalog data of products is refreshed. |
Update interval for functions (days) |
7 |
How often catalog data of functions is refreshed. |
Update interval for vulnerabilities (days) |
7 |
How often vulnerability data is refreshed. |
Update interval for license classifications (days) |
7 |
How often license classifications are refreshed. |
Update interval for vendors (days) |
7 |
How often vendor data is refreshed. |
Upload fingerprints |
Yes |
When enabled, fingerprints that could not be matched are provided to the Catalog server to improve the recognition rate over time. When disabled, they are not provided and the recognition rate does not improve. |
The following parameters can be set in the environment section of the server service in your docker-compose.yml. They provide the default values of the connection; afterwards, the connection is managed in the user interface.
Parameter |
Default |
Description |
|---|---|---|
Catalog__Url |
- |
The Technology Catalog service endpoint. |
Catalog__ApiKey |
- |
The credential used to authenticate requests to the Technology Catalog. |
Catalog__Timeout |
20000 |
Request timeout in milliseconds. |
Catalog__MaxAttempts |
5 |
Maximum number of attempts per request. |