As a part of preparing your source environment, you exported
web collections. After you export a search web collection from a source
portal, you can import the data into a new, empty collection on the
target portal. Importing a web collection retains most of the configuration
data such as content sources, schedulers, filters, and language settings. If you configured such settings when creating the new collection,
they are overwritten by the imported settings.
Before you begin
When you import a web collection, a background process
fetches, crawls, and indexes all documents that are listed by URL
in the previously exported file. Therefore, be aware of the memory
and time that is required for crawls. For more information, see Hints
and tips for using Portal search.
About this task
Complete the following steps on the target portal, using
the Manage Search portlet:Procedure
- If you are migrating to a remote server, copy the XML file
that contains the exported web collection to the server where the
new version of WebSphere® Portal
is installed.
- In the Search Collections box, click New
Collection to create an empty collection.
- Specify the required information in the Location of Collection,
Name of Collection, and Description of Collection
fields, and then click OK.
- To include the security information when you import the search collection, add the
WS_KEY parameter to the search service that contains the target search
collection. Complete the following steps:
- To open the Manage Search portlet, click the
Administration menu icon. Then, click .
- Click Search Services.
- Click the Edit icon for the search service that contains the target
search collection.
- In the Parameter key field, enter WS_KEY.
- In the New parameter value field, enter
secret.
- Click Add Parameter.
Note: If you do not import the security information when you import a search collection, you must
manually add the user name and password to each content source after you import the search
collection into the target portal.
- Click the Import or Export Collection icon
for the collection that you created.
- In the Specify Location field, enter
the full directory path and XML file name of the file that you exported.
- Click Import.
- Edit the Content Source Configuration details to ensure
that the settings match your target environment:
- Select the imported search collection to edit.
- Click the Edit Content Source icon.
- On the General Parameters tab, update the Collect
documents linked from this URL field to match your target
environment. The update might require changing the name of the target
server and the port information. When you import a collection from
a version of WebSphere Portal before
8.0, you need to add the context root path of the portal application. For
example, adding /wps to the URL following the
port information.
- On the Security tab, update the Security
Realms to match your target environment.
- Click Save.
- Click the Search and Browse the Collection icon
for the collection that you created.
- Verify that the documents found are the same as the collection
that you created on the earlier portal server, and that the links
work as expected. Any inconsistencies between the exported
document count and the imported document count should be resolved
the next time the cleanup daemon runs.