Creating an Elasticsearch index area

Index areas contain the search indexes for the content-based retrieval data that is created, updated, and queried by Elasticsearch. Create index areas in order to search for text within object stores.

Use the steps to create an Elasticsearch index area for an object store:

1. Start the Administration Console for Content Platform Engine if you did not already do so.
2. Log on as the Elasticsearch administrator.
3. Select an object store that you want to be indexed by using Elasticsearch.
4. In the object store navigation pane, go to Administrative > Index Areas, select Elasticsearch, and click New to start the New Index Area wizard.
5. Create an Elasticsearch index area:
   1. Specify the values for the number of Shards, Replicas, and Maximum Results Window.
      For performance reasons, you need to consider the number of shards and nodes when you create an index area. For more information, see Selecting the number of shards for an index area.
   2. Complete the wizard.
6. See Index tab for a summary of the configured index area.
   To edit the index configuration for the created index area, see topic Configuring Elasticsearch Index settings.