8.6 Using the Dedicated Filr Appliance to Complete the Indexing Setup

Table 8-9 Index with the Dedicated Appliance

Page, Dialog, or Option	Do This
	Open a management browser on your administrative workstation and access the Port 8443 Administration Utility on the Dedicated Filr Appliance using the following URL: https://dedicated_filr_IP_Address:8443 Where IP_Address is the IP address of the dedicated Filr appliance.
Filr Sign In Dialog	Log in as user admin with password admin, or with the alternate administrator name/password if you specified one for this appliance in Table 8-6. When prompted, change the user password.
Product Improvement (first login only)	Click OK.
Filr Main Window (Web access)	Click the Admin user name in the upper-right corner. Select Administration Console.
Administration Console	Click Index in the left frame.
Search Index	IMPORTANT:If you have users across multiple zones, ensure to perform reindexing on every zone. Take the first search index node out of service to rebuild it while the other is still running. Set this node as “Write Only”. For information about how to take a node out of service, see Maintaining Your High Availability Lucene Index in the Filr 4.3: Maintenance Best Practices Guide. Select Re-Index Everything in the Search Index section of the Administration Console. After the first search index node is rebuilt, put it back into service. Set the node as “Read and Write”. For information about how to take a node out of service, see Maintaining Your High Availability Lucene Index in the Filr 4.3: Maintenance Best Practices Guide. Repeat Step 1 to Step 3 for any additional search index node. To view when indexing is complete, keep the Search Index dialog box open to see the status. Alternatively, a message is displayed in either of the appserver.log files stating that reindexing is complete. To ensure that the rebuild was successful, verify that the following messages appear in the appserver.log file: Completed indexing of tree with xxx binders. Time taken for indexing is xxx.xxx msAdministrative reindexing completed on binders [1] For information about how to access the appserver.log file, see Accessing Filr System Log Files in the Filr 4.3: Administrative UI Reference.
Indexing has finished!	Click Close.
Administration Console	Click Nodes in the left frame.
Search Nodes	Change the User Mode Access option for the second Filrsearch appliance to Read and Write. Click Apply > Close. The dedicated Filr appliance will now handle all of the re-indexing workload.