Portal, Express Beta Version 6.1 Operating systems: i5/OS, Linux,Windows

Configuring search in a clustered environment

To support Portal Search in a clustered environment, install and configure the search service remotely.

To install and configure the search service remotely, perform the following tasks:

1. Install and configure the search service to work remotely, that is, on a remote IBM^® WebSphere^® Application Server node which is not part of the portal cluster. You can provide the remote search service either as an EJB or as a Web service via SOAP. Deploy the appropriate EJB or SOAP EAR file on the remote WebSphere Application Server node. For details about how to do this, refer to the WebSphere Application Server documentation. For details about using EJB or SOAP services, refer to Using remote search service.
2. Configure the search portlets for remote search service so that they access the remote server accordingly. For details about how to configure the remote search service, refer to Using remote search service.

1. If you have configured a remote search service for a portal cluster, you need to configure the default location for search collections to a directory on the remote server that has write access. For details about how to configure the default location for search collections, refer to Configuring the default location for search collections.
2. The portal site default search collection is created only once at the first time when an administrator selects the search administration portlet Manage Search. If this occurred before you configure 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 you need to recreate the portal site collection to make it available for search on all nodes of the cluster. For more information about how to do this, refer to Creating or resetting the portal site collection.