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High availability options for IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 search

Summary:  Increasingly, users of IBM WebSphere Portal have been requesting information on how to provide high availability for the Portal Search service. Out of the box, Portal Search service does not support high availability and thus presents a potential for a single point-of-failure for this service. This white paper explains what options are available to provide certain degrees of high availability for Portal Search service.

Date:  19 Jun 2009
Level:  Intermediate

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Increasingly, users of IBM® WebSphere® Portal have been requesting information on how to provide high availability for the Portal Search service. Out of the box, Portal Search service does not support high availability and thus presents a potential for a single point-of-failure for this service. This white paper explains what options are available to provide certain degrees of high availability for Portal Search service.

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  • Introduction
  • High Availability and search engines: The big picture
  • Sample search portlet to demonstate failover support
  • Wiring the custom search portlet with the search box in the WebSphere Portal theme
  • Conclusion
  • Resources
  • About the authors

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DescriptionNameSizeDownload method
Portal search white paper in PDF formatHighAvailabilityPortalSearch.pdf621 KBHTTP
Sample search portlet in WAR formatBasicSiapiPortlet.war42 KBHTTP

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