Preface

The Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Administrator's Guide explains how to administer Oracle Secure Enterprise Search instances. You will learn how to set up a variety of information sources, crawl and index those sources, and customize the search results.

This Preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Administrator's Guide is intended for administrators and application developers who perform the following tasks:

• Install and configure Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

• Administer Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

• Develop Oracle Secure Enterprise Search applications

Documentation Accessibility

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Access to Oracle Support

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Related Documents

For more information about Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, refer to the following resources:

• Oracle Fusion Applications Installation Guide

  Provides instructions for provisioning an Oracle Fusion Applications environment and installing applications.

• Oracle Fusion Applications Enterprise Deployment Guide

  Provides information for system administrators who are responsible for implementing and configuring Oracle Fusion Applications enterprise deployments.

• Oracle Fusion Applications Administrator's Guide

  Provides information for administrators of enterprise applications.

• Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Release Notes

  Provides version information and identifies known issues.

• Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Administration API Guide

  Provides a guide to the various interfaces to the Administration API.

Up-to-date Release Notes are posted on Oracle Technology Network (OTN). You must register online before using OTN. Registration is free and can be done at this location:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/join/overview/index.htm

If you have a user name and password for OTN, then you can go directly to the documentation section of OTN at this location:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/documentation/index.html

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.
MW_HOME	MW_HOME is the top-level directory for Oracle Fusion Middleware products. This directory is called Middleware home. The Middleware home for Fusion Applications is named fusionapps. Each application is installed in its own Oracle home under MW_HOME.
ORACLE_HOME	ORACLE_HOME for Oracle Secure Enterprise Search represents the path MW_HOME/ses by default; a different name can be specified during installation. It is the directory where Oracle SES is installed.
/	A slash separates levels of a directory path. On Windows, use a backslash (\) instead of a slash (/).