The Global Settings page—also called the home page because it is the default page that appears when you first log in to QuickFinder Server Manager—is for use by the global search administrator, or the person who has administrative rights over the QuickFinder Server.
The Global Settings page has two groups of settings: Default Settings and Services Settings. The first lets you specify default settings for new virtual search servers, and the second gives you administrative control of all virtual search servers.
As the name implies, Default Settings lets you specify the default settings for all new virtual search servers. For example, if you set the default query encoding from the General Settings page to Unicode (UTF-8), any new virtual search server you create after making this change defaults to the new setting. After you create a new virtual search server, you can then change its default settings.
For more information, see Section 7.2, Configuring Default Settings and Section 8.0, Creating and Managing Virtual Search Servers.
Services Settings lets you control all new and existing virtual search servers. For example, when you disable a feature such as e-mail services, the e-mail services feature is removed from the virtual search server configuration pages, making it impossible for the virtual search server administrator to access it.
You can also perform other administrative tasks, such as checking for software updates and configuring QuickFinder synchronization.
For more information, see Section 7.3, Configuring Services Settings.