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6.10.2 Enabling Search in the cluster

When using Portal Document Manager in a clustered environment, the Search

does not work because the search index location is not available to all the

machines in the cluster. To enable Search for a clustered environment, edit the

WCM.properties file on each machine in the cluster to reference the shared

WPCPIndex directory that you created when you set up the Network Deployment

environment.

Modifying the WCM.properties file

Perform the following steps on every server in the cluster:

1. Navigate to the <was_root>\wpcp\config\WebSphere_Portal\author directory.

2. Open the WCM.properties file with a text editor.

3. Locate the following statement: #wcm.indexedsearch.path=/

4. Remove the # comment marker: wcm.indexedsearch.path=/

5. Add the path to the shared directory at the end of the statement.

For example:

wcm.indexedsearch.path=\\servername\sharename\WPCPIndex

6. Save your changes.

Updating the search index

To update the search index, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the shared directory you specified in the wcm.indexedsearch.path

property, and if a search index file exists, delete it.

2. Update the search index.

You can either wait until the next scheduled update occurs, or you can change

the interval to the shortest possible time to force the update to occur sooner.

For complete details refer to the Managing documents → Document

Manager → Search topic in the WebSphere Portal Information Center at:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pvc/wp/500/ent/en/InfoCenter/index.html

3. Verify that the update process is complete by going to the directory where the

search index file is located and monitoring the disk space used by the file.

4. When the size of the file stabilizes, the update is complete.

Note: Always use a forward slash in this path, regardless of the operating

system.