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

Configuring search on a secured portal site

Crawling and searching secured portal sites may require some additional configuration.

For search on secured portal sites Portal Search provides a pre-configured default setup. For more information about this refer to Configuring a crawler to search your local portal site. You can use that setup as is, or you can modify it as required. You can also set up your own search collection for search on portal sites. The following sections describe all of these options.

1. You can crawl, index, and search secured portal pages only on your local portal installation. For security reasons, you cannot crawl secured pages of one portal site from another portal site.
2. For enabling search on secured portal sites you need to enter sensitive data, such as a user ID and password for the crawler. To ensure encryption of this sensitive data when it is stored, update and run the file searchsecret.xml using the XML configuration interface before enabling search on the secured portal site. For details about how to do this, refer to Encrypting sensitive data.
3. When users search a secured portal, the resulting portal pages or resources are filtered based on Portal Access Control. This way Portal Search filters the results according to the access permissions of that user who is searching. This applies to the following resources: portal pages, portlets, and Web Content Management content. Portal Search does not provide security filtering for other HTTP accessible information, such as secured Web sites. The portal cannot filter the resulting documents by portal security for these types of content source.

• Enabling search on a secured portal site with the default configuration
  By modifying some of the settings, you can use the default search collection to configure search of a secured portal site.
• Customizing your search collection for secured portal pages
  Set up your own customized search collection for searching a secured portal site.