Book description
The Lotus Discovery Server is a knowledge server. It provides search and expertise location solutions designed to ensure that the relevant knowledge and collective experience of an organization is readily available to help individuals and teams solve everyday business problems.
In this IBM Redbooks publication we provide an in-depth discussion of the architecture and capabilities of the newest release of the Discovery Server - Discovery Server 2.0. We discuss the key aspects involved in planning for the deployment of this product, from both organizational and technical viewpoints.
We also discuss: the key elements of a solid infrastructure design to ensure scalability and reliability, development and maintenance of an enterprise taxonomy, integration of Discovery Server into your existing environment and applications, use of the Discovery Server API toolkit, and ongoing Discovery Server maintenance.
This book is appropriate for technologists and project managers
who are involved with Lotus Discovery Server-related
projects.
Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.
Table of contents
- Notices
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Lotus Discovery Server 2.0
- Chapter 2: The Discovery Server architecture and key components
- Chapter 3: Planning for a successful deployment
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Chapter 4: Infrastructure design and system performance
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Discovery Server network design and distribution
- Primary and secondary servers
- NSF replication between secondary and primary servers
- The impact of specific Discovery Server tasks
- K-map building service (ATG) considerations
- K-map replication considerations
- Spider considerations
- Firewall considerations
- Network traffic considerations
- A sample distributed Discovery Server architecture
- Discovery Server data and network security
- Server hardware considerations
- OS performance tuning considerations
- Discovery Server-specific tuning considerations
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Discovery Server network design and distribution
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Chapter 5: Installation tips and troubleshooting
- Pre-installation considerations
- Upgrading versus a new install
- Installing Discovery Server 2.0 for the first time
- How to uninstall Discovery Server
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Top configuration problems
- Common name = computer name = host name
- People Awareness component (Sametime) not working
- Cannot access the K-map editor
- Replication problems and conflicts
- Issues with profiles
- Problems reported in the Affinity Processing log
- Spidering file systems
- Browser-related issues
- KDSAdministrators group is missing important entries
- Cannot access the K-map
- Common configuration problems related to Domino security
- Additional information
- Chapter 6: Developing and maintaining an enterprise taxonomy
- Chapter 7: Metrics and affinities
- Chapter 8: Integrating Discovery Server into your enterprise
- Chapter 9: Maintaining a Discovery Server environment
- Appendix A: Additional material
- Related publications
- Index (1/2)
- Index (2/2)
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: Lotus Discovery Server 2.0 Deployment, Planning, and Integration
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2002
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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