Search: Shared file system location

smg

Hi,

During the installation of Search & Index I couldn't understand the difference between these two questions.

Search Server Ports and Shared Filesystem Location
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* * * and the location of shared filesystem for Index data.

Shared Filesystem Location: (DEFAULT: ): /opt/tssearch/shared <<<<<<< question .1.


Index Server Ports and Shared Filesystem Location
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* * * and location of shared filesystem for Index data.

Shared Filesystem Location: (DEFAULT: /opt/tssearch/shared) : <<<<<<< question .2.

If they are same then why it is asking twice.

Thanks
S. Muthu Ganesh

Migrateduser

Value for iw.index.server.port reflects TCP port for the Index Server and value for iw.search.server.port is your TCP port for the Search Server. These are two different values for the two TCP ports corresponding to the two TeamSite Search services and these services monitor on these port for the API requests, such as requests from CLTs and the user interface.

The Shared Filesystem Location denoted by iw.index.agent.idxdir and iw.search.agent.idxdir are the places where the indexes (collections) are stored. This value is asked/stored twice in the properties file because the index and search services can be hosted on the different machines and also to maintain the modularity of both the services for future enhancements.

You are right in saying that the shared location values will be same for the single machine Search configuration you are using.