Search Management Interface

Get familiar with the Search Management Interface.

Getting to the Search Management Interface

Click your Avatar icon and select Manage IBM Analytics Content Hub.
Select Content and then click Search.

Viewing searchable folders

You can view all folders that are searchable in the Search Management Interface.

To filter all searchable folders by their connector, click the drop-down list and select one of the options.

Searchable Folder view in the Search Management user interfce. The user is filtering folders to display only Cognos Analytics content.

Hover over the Information icon to get the index summary of that folder. The summary includes such information as last scan, next scan, index size, and average index time.

Index summary of a searchable folder. The summary shows information about last scan and next scan time, index size, and average index time. It also contains a chart that displays index time.

Click the Folder refresh icon to see the indexing schedule of a folder. You can also adjust the schedule from this view.

Indexing schedule of a folder. The user can adjust index schedule time from this level.

Content Distribution

The Search Management Interface also has a Content Distribution visualization. It shows the number of indexed items for each system that contributes to your content store.

Treemap visualization that shows distribution of contenet between each connector.

Warning: Some Indexes Failed

This warning displays all indexes that failed and you can also re-run them from that level.

Multiple warnings about folders that failed indexing.

Schedule Timing

The Schedule Timing section helps you identify index schedules that overlap, which might negatively impact the application responsiveness. You can filter this view by the time frame and by the connector.

For improved user experience, schedule index rebuilds outside of heavy user activity hours.

Schedule timing visualization that shows overlapping index timings.

Scan Performance

The Scan Performance section tracks the items per minute of a scan over time. A degrade in time might suggest performance issues with the connected system. You can filter the results by the connector.