Portal Express, Version 6.0
Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux, Windows
Use Search in a cluster
To support Portal Search in a clustered environment, install and configure search for remote search service on an IBM® WebSphere® Application Server node that is not part of the IBM WebSphere Portal Express cluster. To enable search in a cluster for content created using Document Manager or the Authoring portlet provided with Web Content Management, configure each machine in the cluster to access a shared directory.
Portal Search users: To support Portal Search in a clustered environment, install and configure search for a remote search service on an WebSphere Application Server node that is not part of the WebSphere Portal Express cluster. For instructions on setting up search and configuring search in a cluster, refer to Configuring search in a clustered environment. This is needed only if you use the Portal Search Engine to access web content sources.
Configuring search in a cluster for content features
To enable search for content features in a clustered environment, complete the following steps on each machine in the cluster.
These instructions assume you have already created a shared directory called jcr/search on a machine in the network and have ensured that each node in the cluster has network access to the directory.
- Edit the icm.properties file in the portal_server_root/jcr/lib/com/ibm/icm directory.
- Change the value of the jcr.textsearch.indexdirectory property to the shared directory jcr/search.
For example: jcr.textsearch.indexdirectory=\\\\your_server\\your_share\\jcr\\search
The shared directory value can be specified in either of two formats:
- Universal Naming Convention (UNC) format: \\\\your_server\\your_share\\jcr\\search
Example: \\\\hostname.example.com\\share\\jcr\\search
- Mounted resource format (with forward slashes): /your_share/jcr/search
Windows example: Y:/share/jcr/search
Linux example: /mnt/jcr/search
- This format requires that the shared jcr/search directory be mounted to the local machine (for example, through a mapped network drive or a mounted directory).
- When using the mounted resource format, always use forward slashes instead of back slashes, regardless of the native operating system path format.
Path formats for the native operating system, such as X:\your_share\jcr\search on a Windows machine, should not be used.
- Universal Naming Convention (UNC) format: \\\\your_server\\your_share\\jcr\\search