Viewing details about a URI

You can view detailed information about a URI. You can see current and historical information about how the document that is represented by this URI is crawled, indexed, and searched.

Before you begin

Before you submit a request to view a URI report or send a report to an email address, ensure that the component that you want to receive information from is active. For example, to view details about how a document is crawled, indexed, and searched, ensure that the Web crawler, master server, and search servers are running.

About this task

Collecting information about a URI is a time-consuming process. You can choose an option to view the information that you request, then wait for it to be displayed. A more efficient option is to send the report to an email address that you specify.

Before you can receive a report, you must ensure that information about your mail server is configured. You specify this information when you configure email options on the Log page of the System view.

The master server and search servers can provide information about all URIs, such as whether a URI is in the index and whether it has been copied to the search servers. To view information about how a document was crawled, you must specify the URI for a document that was crawled by a Web crawler.

Procedure

To view details about a URI:

  1. On the Collections view, expand the collection that you want to monitor.
  2. In the Parse and Index pane, click Configure > URI details.
  3. On the URI Details page, type the URI that you want to view information for.
  4. Select the check boxes for the type of information that you want to see:
    Crawler details (available for Web crawlers only)
    Select this check box to see information about how a document was crawled by a Web crawler, and information about its current status in the crawl space.
    Index details
    Select this check box to see whether a document was indexed and copied to the search servers.
    Search details
    Select this check box to see information about how the document can be searched and whether the document is available for searching.
  5. To wait for the report to be displayed, click View report.
  6. To send the report to an email address so that you can view at a later time, click Send report.
    1. On the Send a Detailed URI Report page, type an email address for receiving the report in the Email address to notify field.
    2. Click Send Report.