Configure Portal Search in a cluster
To support Portal Search, install and configure search for remote search service on an IBM WebSphere Application Server node that is not part of the cluster.
- To install and configure the search service to work remotely. Place the search service on a remote WebSphere Application Server node that is not part of the cluster. We can provide the remote search service either as an EJB or as a web service that uses SOAP. Deploy the appropriate EJB or SOAP EAR file on the remote WebSphere Application Server node.
- Prepare the remote search service
- Configure the remote search service
- Configure the search portlets for remote search service so they access the remote server.
What to do next
- If we configured a remote search service, configure the default location for search collections to a directory on the remote server. The server must have write access.
- The portal site default search collection is created when an administrator selects the Manage Search portlet. If this occurred before configuring the portlet for remote search, then the default portal site search collection is only available on the primary node of the cluster, but not on the remote server. In this case, we must re-create the portal site collection to make it available for search on all nodes of the cluster.