8.2 Setting Up Two Filr Search Appliances

Filr best practices require that every expandable deployment have two Filrsearch appliances. There are no advantages to having more than two.

Best practices allow for operating Filr with one search appliance, but only under special circumstances, such as when reindexing is required. One appliance continues to service user requests while the other is focused on rebuilding the search index.

Figure 8-3 shows that two Filr Search appliances are the third and fourth components deployed in an expandable deployment.

Figure 8-3 Set up Two Filr Search Appliances

Table 8-3 Setting Up the Filrsearch Appliances

Page, Dialog, or Option

Do This

 

  1. Open a management browser on your administrative workstation and access the Port 9443 Administration Utility on the first Filrsearch appliance using the following URL:

    https://filrsearch_IP_Address:9443

    Where IP_Address is the IP address of the first Filrsearch appliance.

Filr Search Appliance Sign In

  1. Log in as the vaadmin user with the password that you set for the appliance in Vaadmin password and confirmation:.

Filr Search Tools

  1. Click the Configuration button to launch the Filr Search Configuration Wizard.

Filr Search Configuration Wizard

  1. Click Next.

  2. Type and confirm a password for the Lucene Service User (use the same password for both appliances).

    Make a note of the password for later.

  3. Click Finish.

Search Settings

  1. Scroll down and click Submit > OK.

 

  1. Repeat the steps in this table for the second Filrsearch appliance, then close the browser.

  2. Continue with Setting Up the Filr Appliances