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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)

A lsit of frequently asked questions is avalibal at documentation/faq/.

User manual for Searchdaimon Es

Table of Contents

First steps: Introduction; Different versions, virtual appliance; 32-bit cpu issues
Installation: VMware Player installation; VMware ESX installation; VirtualBox installation; KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) installation
Basic configuration: Find the IP-address or hostname; Open the administration panel; Optionally add a primary user system; User system: Setup Microsoft Active Directory
First collection and search: Add collections; Try the first search
Administration panel: Overview; Scan; Add manually; End users; User systems; Settings; Statistics & logs; Phone home
Administration tasks: Increasing the size of the virtual disk in VMware; Increasing the size of the virtual disk in Virtualbox; Searching without logging in (anonymous / public search); Configure an external firewall
TCP/IP configuration: From console; From webadmin
Crawling and indexing data sources: Microsoft Exchange; Excluding files and folders from a crawl
End-user integration, local client software and patching: Differences between opening and downloading a file; Opening files from network shares in Internet Explorer, FireFox or Google Chrome; Exchange with Outlook 2008 or 2010 in Windows
End-user search guide: Getting started; Searching
Creating your own data connector: Introduction; The ES crawler API; Example 1: A Twitter connector using the Twitter json API and Perl; Example 2: Using attributes; Interacting directly with the ES; Getting ssh access for the “boitho” user; Running the crawler from the connsole; Working with text. Use UTF-8; Running Perl from the connsole; Installing CPAN modules
Customising the look and feel: Translating the search engine result page into a new language
Search results api: Api demo; Opensearch v1.1; Searchdaimon v2.1; Plain v1.0
Future functions: Introduction; Add documents with REST api; Searching with the REST api

Quickstart & administrator guide (in Norwegian only) (Pdf)

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