how does the search appliance work
June 11, 2008
Basically it works like this…
Once the GSA is installed on your network and configured – you can begin to crawl documents, creating a master index of files. Your users can immediately begin to search over this index from the search interface.
You can create custom search pages (front ends), or use the default front end. You can create multiple front ends… a search interface for each department or sector of your business for example. You can create as many front ends as you like, and you can modify certain attributes of those front ends from the admin console. If you need to make extensive changes, or create custom pages – you have to modify the xslt code behind the front end… I’ll save that for another blog.
The search appliance can literally index millions of files; that number varies depending on the license you have and the model of GSA that you buy.
The GB-1001 is a 2U server that can be licensed to search up to 3 million documents.
The GB-5005 is a 5U server with a document capacity of 10 million documents – it features built in clustering and failover.
Next up is the GB-8008
This monster can index up to 30 million documents out of the box and apparently has the ability to index an unlimited number of documents. Better have a fat wallet.
