Configure Roles

Each deployment role corresponds to a Exalead CloudView process, which displays on the Home page of the Administration Console.

For a description of all roles and their options, see Appendix - Deployment Roles and Related Processes in the Exalead CloudView Administration Guide.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Add Hosts
Add a New Build Group

Context:

By adding roles to a host, you install Exalead CloudView processes on that machine, which you can manage from the Administration Console’s Home page.

Add a Combined Search and Index Server

  1. On the new secondary server, click Add roles.
  2. On the Add roles window, select the Index role and all the Search roles:
    • Mashup UI
    • Mashup API
    • Search API
    • Search Server
    • Storage Service
  3. Click Accept.
  4. Configure the Index role:
    1. Select the Build group such as bg0.
    2. For Instance name, enter a name such as i0.
  5. Configure the Search Server role:
    1. For Instance name, enter a unique name such as ss1.
    2. For API port, enter a port number, for example, baseport + 10.
    3. For UI port, enter a port number, for example, baseport.
    4. Select HTTPS if you need to use SSL for the hosted Mashup UIs; see also Enable HTTPs for the Mashup UI in the Exalead CloudView Administration Guide.
  6. Configure the Search API role:
    1. For Search server instance, enter the instance name specified in step 5.
  7. Configure the Mashup API role:
    1. For Search server instance, enter the instance name specified in step 5.
    2. For Instance name, enter a unique name such as ac1.
    3. For Mashup application, enter your application name, if not using default.
  8. Configure the Storage Service role:
    1. For Search server instance, enter the instance name specified in step 5.
    2. For Instance name, enter a unique name such as sts1.
  9. Configure the Mashup UI role:
    1. For Search server instance, enter the instance name specified in step 5.
    2. For Instance name, enter a unique name such as mu1.
    3. For HTTP context path, enter the path for the application such as /mashup-ui.
    4. For Storage service instance, enter the instance name specified in step 8.
  10. Click Apply.
  11. You are now ready to install a secondary server of the product. See Installing Secondary Servers.

Add a Search Server Only

  1. On the new secondary server, click Add Roles.
  2. On the Add Roles window, select all the Search roles:
    • Mashup API
    • Search API
    • Search Server
    • Mashup UI
    • Storage Service
  3. Click Accept.
  4. Configure the Search Server role:
    1. For Instance name, enter a unique name such as ss1.
    2. For API port, enter a port number, for example, baseport + 10.
    3. For UI port, enter a port number, for example, baseport.
    4. Select HTTPS if you need to use SSL for the hosted Mashup UIs. For more information, see Enable HTTPs for the Mashup UI in the Exalead CloudView Administration Guide.
  5. Configure the Search API role:
    1. For Search server instance, enter the instance name specified in step 4.
  6. Configure the Mashup API role:
    1. For Search server instance, enter the instance name specified in step 4.
    2. For Instance name, enter a unique name such as ac1.
    3. For Mashup application, enter your application name, if not using default.
  7. Configure the Storage Service role:
    1. For Search server instance, enter the instance name specified in step 4.
    2. For Instance name, enter a unique name such as sts1.
  8. Configure the Mashup UI role:
    1. For Search server instance, enter the instance name specified in step 4.
    2. For Instance name, enter a unique name such as mu1.
    3. For HTTP context path, enter the path for the application such as /mashup-ui.
    4. For Storage service instance, enter the instance name specified in step 7.
  9. Click Apply.
  10. You are now ready to install a secondary server of the product. See Installing Secondary Servers.

Add an Index Server Only

  1. On the new secondary server, click Add Roles.
  2. On the Add Roles window, select the Index role.
  3. Click Accept.
  4. Configure the Index role:
    1. Select the Build group.
    2. For Instance name, specify a name such as i0.
  5. Click Apply.
  6. You are now ready to install a secondary server of the product. See Installing Secondary Servers.

Define a Local-Only Search Target

Before you begin: While most of the deployment scenarios covered in this guide use the default search target, the scenario shown in Recommended Deployment uses a local-only search target. With a local-only search target, the search server only searches indexes that are on the same machine.
  1. In the Administration Console, select Deployment > Build groups > Search Targets.
  2. Delete the default search target, st0.
  3. Click Add search target:
    1. For Name, type st0.
    2. For Type, select Local only.
    3. Click Accept.
  4. In the settings for this new search target, under Build groups, select the target build group.
  5. Click Apply.