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Overview

Collections/Resources -> Overview
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Overview is where you check status and configure your collections. Collections are grouped by type of crawler (SMB, Exchange etc.).

To recrawl a collection, select Crawl now. The collection will immediately start to recrawl if the Collection manager is allowed to crawl in this time interval (see Collection manager). To configure the collection, select Manage. You can also see some statistics there. Test-collections are managed from Crawler extensions (under Connectors). Remote installed crawlers generate Pushed collections, and should be managed from the remote host.

Manage

Edit collection

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In the Edit collection tab you can edit your collection settings in the same way you configured it when creating the collection. Details here.

Advanced management

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Under Advanced management you'll find the following functions:

• Force full crawl now Deletes downloaded content, and starts all over again.
• Test crawl You can choose to only download the first documents. This is useful when testing a crawler without running a full crawl.
• Enable anonymous search Enables search for everyone. Visit
  http://<your Searchdaimon ES address>/public
• Share alias For Windows Shared Folders. Display this alias in the address-field of the documents instead of an IP-address or a hostname.

Result customization

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• Summary The short summary presented for each document in the search results is called a snippet. When "Generate snippet" is selected, our software extracts an abstract of the text according to the query.
• Cache Choose if the results should show a link to our cached version of the document.
• Ranking (advanced) It is possible to experiement how a document is ranked by adjusting scores according to where in the document query-words are matched.

Statistics

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Shows how many documents are crawled every second.

Scan

Collections/Resources -> Scan
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SMB supports scanning for Windows shared folders. This can be a good alternative if you don' want to add your shares manually.

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Fill out the IP address on the server to be scanned, or a range to scan more than one computer (ex: "192.168.1.0/24"). Ping-scanning is much faster if you are scanning a network, but some computers may not answer these types of ping requests.

After the scan has completed, it's easy to add new collections.

Add manually

Collections/Resources -> Add manually
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Add new collection.

When adding a new collection, you need to specify which crawler to use. Crawlers included in the standard version:

• SMB Microsofts file sharing protocol. Use this for shared folders in Windows.
• Exchange Microsoft Exchange e-mail server.
• Intranet Web servers located on the intranet.
• SuperOffice SuperOffice CRM.
• ExchangePublic Public Folders in Microsoft Exchange.
• Sharepoint Microsoft Sharepoint.

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Specifying detailed information

The details needed can vary between crawlers. For instance the SMB crawler:

• User system The crawler fetches data about user access, and has to know what user system the collection belongs to. For most companies, this will be Microsoft Active Directory. Some systems, like SuperOffice, use their own user systems. In such cases, the user system has to be added before the collection, under User systems.
• Authentication Specify username and password for a user who has access to read all documents you want to search.
• User prefix Sometimes an installation of the system we are connecting to needs us to add a prefix to our usernames. For instance a domain name: "DOMAIN\".
• What to crawl Address of the resource. The format varies between crawlers.
• Crawling behaviour Specify how often we should look for document updates. For some crawlers, every file has to be checked. You should therefore avoid crawling too often. Once per day is usually good.

When everything is filled in, click "Add collection". The collection will now appear in Overview, and will immediately start to fetch documents if we are allowed to crawl at this time of day (see Collection manager).

End users

Users -> End users
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To make it possible to search at all, you have to active those users who should have access. Under End users, all users in the primary user system are listed, so it will be easy to click on those users you want to activate. Just remember to click "Update user access" when done.

User systems

Users -> User systems
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To run Searchdaimon ES, you need at least a primary user system. Many companies already run Microsoft Active Directory. It is also possible to install secondary user systems, and map their users to the primary system.

Settings

Configuration -> Settings
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Main settings

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In the Main settings tab, you can change license or administrator password. It is recommended to run the production version of Searchdaimon ES, but it is also possible to run the testing version. The development version is available by agreement only.

Collection manager

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Crawling and recrawling can take up a lot of resources. Every collection is scanned for new content. This means that every file on your server is checked for changes, new e-mail gets downloaded, and other content is scanned for updates. This can slow down performance of your content servers while crawling is active. If this is an issue for you, we recommend limiting crawling to nighttime.

Advanced settings

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These are values used internally in the search engine. Do not make changes here unless you know what you are doing.

Network configuration

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In this tab you can change the servers network settings.

Statistics & logs

System -> Statistics & Logs
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You can see which users are the most active, what the most popular queries are, and how many searches are performed every day.

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These are log files for running processes, and are meant for debugging.

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The query log shows the last 50 searches.

Phone home

Help -> Phone home
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If you need help, our job may become easier if you activate Phone home. Then it will be possible for us to log in and perform maintenance if necessary. Contact us before you activate it.