Exalead CloudView Components

Exalead CloudView allows you to index huge quantities of both structured and unstructured data, from multiple data sources, and then present them in an intuitive search interface.

This page discusses:

See Also
Understanding the Exalead CloudView Workflow
Focus on Indexing
Focus on Search

Main Software Interfaces

Exalead CloudView includes the following main software interfaces:

  • Administration Console (a.k.a. Admin-UI) is the main user interface for configuring connection to data sources via connectors, indexing options and search processes.
  • Mashup UI is the search front end of the Exalead CloudView solution.
  • Mashup Builder is the drag-and-drop interface for modifying the front end of the search application (that we call "Mashup UI") and creating custom applications. It lets you use two types of feeds and a limited set of widgets.
  • Business Console is a graphical interface for business users to:
    • Control the search results relevance.
    • Manage alerting services.
    • Edit semantic resources used both to enrich documents at indexing time and expand queries at search time.
    and
  • Monitoring Console is a console to graphically track Exalead CloudView services and resource consumption.
  • API Console is a console to edit most configuration files and perform operation commands on Exalead CloudView. It allows you to configure advanced properties that are not accessible in the Administration Console.

For more information on how to display these components, see Access the Interfaces in the Exalead CloudView Installation Guide.

Exalead CloudView APIs

Exalead CloudView provides the following APIs to allow integration with third-party applications.

  • Push API (PAPI) is the public API that allows Exalead CloudView to index data from any source. It supports all operations required to develop new connectors, both managed and unmanaged.
  • Mashup API is the API which retrieves the contents of data sources to make them accessible to the data feeds.
    Important: Mashup Builder Premium also uses other APIs for non-Exalead CloudView feeds (for example, FlickR search).
  • Search API is the public API for developing third-party search applications. It is the entry point for performing searches on Exalead CloudView.
  • Management API (MAMI) is the public API used to configure and manage the Exalead CloudView processes.

For more information, see the Exalead CloudView Programmer's Guide.

TCP Ports

Exalead CloudView uses a continuous range of 100 TCP ports to operate correctly. The default entry points are the following.

Default port

Used by

<BASEPORT>

Mashup UI

<BASEPORT> + 1

Administration Console, Mashup Builder, Business Console, Monitoring Console, and API Console

<BASEPORT> + 2

Push API

<BASEPORT> + 10

Search API

<BASEPORT> + 11

Gateway and Management APIs

For example, you can access the Administration Console at http://<HOSTNAME>:<BASEPORT+1>/admin.

Supported URLs

The following table describes the URLs supported in the Exalead CloudView configuration.

URL

Description

Example

config:///

Files located in the applied product configuration.

config:///2/master/Connectors.xml

file:///

Files located at this file system path. This follows the standard File URI scheme.

Recommendation: Use the absolute path.

on Windows, file:///C:/path/to/myfile.txt

on Linux, file:///data/smith/mytext

data:///

Files located at the root of the <DATADIR> of your specific product install, for example, to reference your synonyms resource file.

data:///synonym/synonym.bin

http://

Standard HTTP URL protocol.

http://server1:10000/myfiles

https://

Secure HTTPS URL protocol.

https://server1:10000/myfiles

resource:///

By default, Exalead CloudView looks for resources in <DATADIR>\resource\all-arch and then the <INSTALLDIR>\resource\all-arch.

resource:///lemmatizer/LANG