Prepare for Portal Search
The following sections list and describe some planning considerations and first steps that apply before working with Portal Search. Make sure you read all of these sections and also the Hints and tips for using Portal Search
For an administrative overview of the Portal Search portlets refer to Portlets for working with Search.
To enhance your possibilities of working with search, 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 considerations
The following topics describe security aspects that consider with regards to content search in IBM WebSphere Portal V6.1.- 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.- Searching 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
Administering Portal Search
Related reference
Hints and tips for using Portal Search
Portlets for working with Search