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.
In this article
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