Watch the Sharepoint Crawler in integration scenarios!

We've just deployed a solution where teamsites are generated to work with data from Navision Axapta. The point-to-point integration delivered by axapta is somewhat fragile.

When the sharepoint gatherer started crawling the site directory one night the Axapta COM Connector went completely bananas. The crawler simply made to many simultaneous page requests on teamsite homepages that fetched data from Axapta. By configuring simultaneous page requests in Sharepoint Central Administration to 1 all was good again.

So; when doing integration, and generating sites with webparts displaying data from another system you should think about how many requests this might actually generate when the crawler gets going.

A good (somewhat involuntary) performance test though:-)