Monitor the parser when you need to view information about
documents that are parsed and analyzed before they are added to the
index. Options enable you to review statistics and administer parser
activity.
If your administrative role limits you to monitoring collections,
you can view the status of the parser, but you cannot start or stop
the parser.
When you monitor parser details, you see a snapshot of
parser activity that provides statistics about parsing activities
at a specific moment in time. For example, the statistics show you
the number of documents that were parsed and added to the index and
the total size of the index.
When the parser is active, messages
provide you with additional information about the state of the parser.
For example:
- The parser might be actively parsing documents.
- The parser might be idle. The parser sleeps until more documents
are available to parse.
To monitor the parser for a collection:
- On the Collections view, expand the
collection that you want to monitor.
- If the parser is running and you want to see detailed status
information about parsing activity, click Details in
the Parse and Index pane.
If your
administrative role allows you to administer processes for a collection,
you can start and stop the parser while you view details about parsing
activities.
When you first create a collection, start the parser
only after the crawler begins crawling data. This ensures that the
parser has data to analyze and tokenize. Unless you make changes to
parsing rules, you can let the parser run continuously.
You
need to stop and restart the parser when you make changes to parsing
rules. For example, if you change the parser configuration, you must
stop and restart the parser before your changes become effective.
If you monitor an enterprise search collection
that does not use a document cache to support rebuilding the index
from cached documents, you must recrawl documents to apply parsing
changes to documents that are already stored in the index.
If
global processes or analytic resources are configured for the collection,
you can monitor those activities. For example, you can see how many
documents have been processed. If a schedule was configured for link
analysis or thumbnail generation, you can see when the process is
scheduled to run again.
