User Guide

Creating and Managing Search Sites 145
Getting Results with Novell Web Services
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August 29, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
14 Creating and Managing Search Sites
This chapter provides detailed information about how to create and manage
your search sites using NetWare
®
Web Search Manager.
About Search Sites
By definition, a search site is a collection of one or more indexes and their
related configuration files. Indexes are at the heart of a search site. An index
is an optimized binary file that contains keywords found in documents hosted
on a Web or file server. Indexes are used by Web Search to return search
results to users’ Web browsers.
HINT: Web Search allows you to create up to three search sites. However, using
the enterprise version of Web Search (not included with NetWare 6), you can
create as many search sites as your server resources will allow.
For more information, contact your Novell resaler and ask how you can get the
enterprise version of the NetWare Web Search Server.
Before creating search sites, particularly large or mission-critical ones, you
should carefully plan how to configure your search services. A search site that
will be used by a small to medium department in a company requires different
planning than a search site that will serve thousands of customers on an
Internet site.
For information about how to plan an effective search service, see Chapter 13,
“Planning Your Search Service,” on page 139.
Creating a Search Site
Once you have carefully planned your search service, you can start creating
and configure search sites, and then begin adding indexes to them.
1 From the Web Search Manager Global Settings page, click Add New Site.
2 In the Site Name field, enter a new site name, which is typically the DNS
or domain name of your server.
For more information about site names, see “Naming a Search Site” on
page 146.