[Building Sakai] Who is using the Search Tool?

[Tom Hall]

We haven't so far, but once we get an archiving process set up for
completed courses we'll have to do something bout getting the old data out
of the indices.

Tom



On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Johns, Cheryl wrote:

> Do you purge the search files periodically?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Hall [mailto:thall at brocku.ca]
> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:49 AM
> To: Johns, Cheryl
> Cc: Developers Sakai-Dev
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Who is using the Search Tool?
>
> Good morning
>
> We are using the search tool (optionally on a course by course by course
> basis).  We have a cluster of 4 (sometimes 5 servers) with one of thise
> acting as a search server along with providing mormal client access.  When
> we started we we having each server provide its own search service but had
> problems with corrultipn of the shared file related to the search service.
> We also got a significant performance increase on the search service once
> we moved the files from shared space (via NFS) to the local drive on the
> server running the search service.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, Johns, Cheryl wrote:
>
> > We're looking to investigate the Search tool and I've found some info on it from Ian Boston on Confluence.  Who is using it in practice?
> >
> > Does it have the capability to even search documents that are stored on the file system or just database contents?
> >
> > Cheryl Johns
> > Applications Support Manager, Instructional Solutions
> > http://cmi2.yale.edu
> > The Center for Media and Instructional Innovation
> > 135 College Street, Suite 101
> > New Haven, CT  06510
> > Office: 1.203.436.4626
> >
> >
>