The QuickFinder™ Server Synchronization feature provides fault tolerance and load balancing. To include failover capabilities, you can enable QuickFinder for clustering.
To configure QuickFinder Server to work with Novell® Cluster Services™, you should install QuickFinder Server on each server in your cluster. This allows the installation program to correctly register QuickFinder Server with each of your server's Web and application servers.
With NetWare® 6.5, you cannot install QuickFinder Server to any volume other than sys:. However, you can use virtual search servers to enable QuickFinder Server to work in a cluster.
Make the cluster node active on one server.
If it is not already installed, install QuickFinder on that server.
In the QuickFinder Server Manager, click the icon, then click .
In the field, specify the DNS name of the cluster server.
In the field, specify the volume and path on the shared cluster volume where all the indexes and virtual search server settings will be located.
Click .
Set up and create any indexes that you want clustered in that virtual search server.
For more information, see Creating Indexes.
Move the cluster node to the other server and install QuickFinder Server on that server.
Add a new virtual search server and give it the same name and location as the virtual search server you created in Step 3.
The settings already created on the shared volume are displayed.
To do a search on the cluster volume, enter http://DNS_CLUSTER/qfsearch/search. QuickFinder Server sees the DNS and knows which virtual search server to send the request to.
IMPORTANT:All scheduling information is stored on the sys: volume, so you must set up scheduling on each server. When the cluster node is not active on one of the servers, the scheduled indexes on that server fail. However, the server that has the cluster node generates the indexes.