Starting the global search services on Linux®

Applies to:

You can start global search as a service.

About this task

Use the steps in this topic as a guide. Depending on your environment and organization policies, you might decide to use a different method to set up the search service. If you want to use a different method, open the openpages-search file and check the commands, and the order of the commands. Modify the commands to meet the needs of your environment.

Note: Make sure that the database server is reachable and is up and running. Otherwise, the search services will not connect and will not start.

Procedure

Log on to the search server.
Open a shell as the root user.
Copy the <SEARCH_HOME>/opsearchtools/openpages-search file to the /etc/init.d/ directory.
Copy the <SEARCH_HOME>/opsearchtools/openpages-search-cfg file to the /etc/sysconfig/ directory.
Set the execution permission on the openpages-search file by running the following command: chmod +x /etc/init.d/openpages-search
If you want the service to start automatically when the system restarts, run the following commands:
```
chkconfig --add openpages-search
chkconfig openpages-search on
service openpages-search start
```
Start the global search services by running the following command: service openpages-search start
Open a browser and point to your search server at ports 8983 and 8985. Make sure that the Solr search platform can be reached.
For example, http://<search-server>:8983/ and http://<search-server>:8985/.

If the verification fails, repeat the preceding step.
Log on to IBM OpenPages® as an administrator.
Click Open Administration menu > System Configuration > Global Search and click Enable.