Administering Portal Search

This section describes the administrative tasks related to Portal Search.

1. Create search services. You can use the default search services provided with portal, or you can create additional search services, for example, for setting up remote search or search in a portal cluster.
2. Configuring Portal Search. You do this by configuring the search service.
3. Optional: Install the Search and Browse end user portlet to allow for advanced searches by users. For details refer to Configuring the Search and Browse portlet for end users.
4. Configuring the search portlets for various environments and requirements, for example, for local or remote search service, or for search on use on anonymous pages.
5. Manage Portal Search for users:
   1. Create a search collection and define its properties, thereby allowing for fast and efficient searches.
   2. Create one or more content sources for that collection and have them crawled.
   3. Optional: Determine and select which of the documents in the collection will or will not be available for search by users.
   For more details about these tasks refer to Setting up search collections.

• Managing search services
  This topic gives an overview of how you manage the portal search services. This includes creating a new search service or editing an existing search service.
• Search service configuration parameters
  This topic lists the portal search service parameters and possible values.
• Configuring a remote search service
  Configure a remote search service for Portal Search.
• Backup and recovery of search collections configuration
  The backup and recovery function in Portal Search automatically detects a corrupted search collection configuration or index and recovers the collection information from the backup files.
• Configuring the default location for search collections
  
• Configuring the Search Center portlet
  This topic gives an overview of how you configure the Search Center.
• Customizing the Search Center
  Customize the Search Center by adding additional portlets, such as a searchlet or recommended links. The searchlet displays search results from third-party external search engines such as Yahoo and Google. Using the recommended links portlet, display search results from a collection of predefined links with predefined keywords. You can also configure the All Sources scope or replace it with a customized scope.
• Configuring the Search and Browse portlet for end users
  This topic gives an overview of how you configure the Search and Browse portlet.
• Enabling anonymous users to search public pages of your portal
  You can enable anonymous users (sometimes also called unauthenticated users) to search public pages of your portal by using a portal search portlet.
• Configuring your custom portal themes to include the search box
  
• Customizing your own search portlet helps
  This topic describes how you can modify or replace the portlet helps for the Portal Search portlets.