Planning and preparing for Portal Search
Learn about some planning considerations and first steps that you need to apply before working with Portal Search.
Make sure you read all of the following sections and also the topic about Hints and tips for using Portal Search.
For an administrative overview of the Portal Search portlets, refer to the topic about Portlets for working with Portal Search.
Portal Search is preconfigured with a search service, a portal site search collection, and scopes. You can add, modify, and remove search services, collections, and scopes.
To enhance your possibilities of working with search, you can install additional portlets related to Portal Search and apply special configurations. For information about how to do this refer to the subtopics of Administering Portal Search.
- Security
Learn about the security aspects that you need to consider with regards to content search in WebSphere Portal v6.1.5.
- Use remote search service
You can configure the search portlets for local operation, or you can configure them for remote search service. Depending on your configuration, remote search service might have performance benefits by offloading and balancing system load.
- Search across Lotus Quickr servers
Set up search services for remote IBM Lotus Quickr servers, then make the services available to Portal Search so that users can search across content on all the servers.
Parent topic:
Portal Search
Related tasks
Configure Portal Search in a cluster on AIX
Configure Portal Search in a cluster on HP-UX
Configure Portal Search in a cluster on i5/OS
Configure Portal Search in a cluster on Linux
Configure Portal Search in a cluster on Solaris
Configure Portal Search in a cluster on Windows
Administer Portal Search
Related reference
Hints and tips for using Portal Search
Portlets for working with Search