Indexing Roles

This page discusses:

Indexing Server
Converter
Index
Dictionary Builder

Indexing Server

The Indexing Server is the central indexing component for a given build group.

One per build group.

Attributes


UI name	XML name	Type	Default	Required	Description
Build group	`buildGroup`	String	None	Yes	Name of the build group
Papi server port	`papiPort`	integer (TCP port)	basePort + 2 (for bg0)	Yes	Communication port for the HTTP Push API
No. of slices	`nbSlices`	integer	None	Yes	Number of index slices in this build group

Converter

Converts documents to text, HTML, and thumbnails.

Attributes


UI name	Name	Type	Default	Required	Description
Instance name	`instance`	String	None	Yes	Name of this crawler server instance

Index

A partial or full replica of a build group's index slices.

Related Processes

Several index6-* processes, depending on your configuration.


UI Name	XML Name	Type	Default	Required	Description
Build group	`buildGroup`	String	None	Yes	Name of the build group.
Index slice	`indexSlice`	integer	None	No	If this attribute is left empty, it replicates all slices of the build group. Otherwise, it replicates the slice with this ID only.
Instance name (empty for all)	`instance`	String	None	Yes	Name for this set of slice replicas. Replica names must be unique for a slice.
Use the builder dir	`useSharedDir`	Boolean	false	No	Uses the index builder directory instead of replicating the data. Only possible if this role is on the same host as the corresponding Indexing role.
Runtime config	`runtimeConfig`	String	None	Yes	Name of an index runtime config found in `IndexRuntimes.xml`.

Dictionary Builder

Computes the global dictionary. Globally unique and required for all deployments. Generally on the same host as the Gateway, in which case it is embedded in the same process.

Attributes

None.