Administering Portal Search
You can administer and configure many details for Portal Search.
About this task
Note: Before you start administering Portal Search, review
the topic about Planning and Preparing for Portal Search.
Manage
Search is the Portal Search administration portlet. It
has three main sections:
- Search Services: Use this section to manage search services.
- Search Collections: Use this section to manage search collections and their content sources.
- Search Scopes: Use this section to manage search scopes and custom links to Web search locations.
In order to enable Portal Search and make documents available for search by users, you perform administrative tasks such as the following:
Procedure
Results
What to do next
Portal Search is preconfigured with a search service, a portal site search collection, and scopes. You can add and remove search services, collections, and scopes.
You can perform most of the configuration tasks for Portal Search by using the administration portlet Manage Search. By alternative, you can also administer Portal Search by using the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console and resource providers in XML format.
All search collections are available by the All Sources selection option of the Search Center portlet.