Configuring and operating FTS

The FTS Server can be operated by the startup and shutdown scripts in the FTS_Home/bin subdirectory. The FTS Server must be running to perform indexing and full text searches.

After the FTS Server is started, by default it listens on TCP port 8191. Content Manager OnDemand and the FTS Exporter must know this port to communicate with the FTS Server. The port can be changed by using the port parameter with the configTool. For more information about how to use this command, see Index considerations.

The following command-line tools are installed in the bin directory and used to manage the FTS Server:
  • adminTool: Used to manage collections, set trace options, and check statuses
  • configTool: Used to review and change most system and collection parameters
  • startup and shutdown scripts
  • stopwordTool: Used to add or modify the list of stop words (common words that are not indexed)
  • synonymTool: Used to add or remove synonym dictionaries from the index
  • dumpIndex: Used to dump documents from the index