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Making Users More Productive withEnterprise Search

Lopa Subramanian

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Agenda

What is Enterprise Search?

Demonstration

Architecture

Installation & Settings

Q & A

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What is Enterprise Search?

Full Text Search

In time, a replacement for Discover Innovator and Alcove 9

Core functionality

Uses Lucene / Solr

Free for Subscribers

Coming in 11.0 SP7, May 2016

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What is Enterprise Search?

Search Across:▫ Multiple Item Types

▫ Related Items

▫ Content in Files

Filter Results

Permissions

Configurable

NOT:▫ Query builder

▫ Report writer

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Demonstration

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The thing about search…

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User Interface

Data

Functionality

Permissions

Architecture

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Innovator Database(s)Aras Innovator

Database(s)

Aras Innovator Server

ES Agent Service

ES Index ServiceVault(s)

Vault(s)Vault(s)

Crawlers

Solr

Zookeeper

Cluster Service

Demo DBAgent 1 Configuration

Example

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Sample DBAgent 1 Configuration

11 SP7 - 1

ES Agent Service11.0 SP7 - Demo DB

ES Index ServiceVault(s)

Sample DB

Vault(s)Demo DB Solr

Demo DB collectionSample DB collection

Zookeeper

Cluster Service

ES Agent Service11.0 SP7 – Sample DB

Installation

Install JRE 1.8

ArasESIndexSetup.msi▫ Installs Solr, Zookeeper and Cluster Service▫ Run install in update mode for each database to install a collection

ArasESAgentSetup.msi▫ Installs Agent and Crawlers▫ Has to be run separately for each database with Enterprise Search▫ Creates Agent configuration in database if it doesn’t exist

Default Ports for ES Index Service▫ Solr - 8983 ▫ Cluster Service - 8081▫ Zookeeper 2181▫ Change ports if installing multiple Index Services on the same machine

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Configuring Indexed ItemTypes

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ES Indexed Configuration

ES Indexed Type

Root ItemType

Path

ES Indexed Property

Part

Part

ES Indexed Configuration Type

ES Indexed File

Path

Part -> Part Document -> Document -> Document Filen

n

n

Part Goal

Document

Item Number

Name

Description

Summary

Full Text Search

Free to Subscribers

New components to Install

Scalable architecture

Coming in 11.0 SP7

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