Instances Page

Instance management enables you to logically separate the management of multiple Ultra Search instances within your organization. For example, an organization's Marketing portal, Human resources portal and Development portal can each have their own Ultra Search instances. All data belonging to an instance such as defined data sources, schedules and index data are entirely independent from data belonging to other Ultra Search instances.

In this section, you can select an instance to manage. Additionally, if you have the required privileges, you can create new instances or drop instances.

Selecting an Instance

You must select an Ultra Search instance to use the administration tool. When you select an instance to manage, all instance-specific administrative changes are applied only to that instance.

To select an instance, do the following on the "Instances" page:

1. Click on the "Select" sub tab.
2. Select an instance from the pull-down menu.
3. Click on the APPLY button.

Creating an Instance

Every Ultra Search instance is associated with one and only one database schema. To create a new Ultra Search instance, you associate the new instance with an existing database schema. The database schema must not already be associated with another Ultra Search instance.

It is important that you understand the issues involved in creating a new database user. Please click here for important information and instructions on configuring database users for Ultra Search.

Note: Only database users that are assigned the WKADMIN role are allowed to create instances via the Ultra Search Administration Tool.

To create an instance, do the following on the "Instances" page:

1. Click on the "Create" subtab.
2. Enter an arbitrary name for the new Ultra Search instance.
3. Enter the database schema to associate with the Ultra Search instance.
4. Enter the password of the database schema.
5. Click on the APPLY button and wait for a result page to be displayed.

Deleting an Instance

To delete an instance, do the following on the "Instances" page:

1. Click on the "Delete" subtab.
2. Select an instance from the pull-down menu.
3. Click on the APPLY button.

Note: To delete an Ultra Search instance, you must be assigned the WKADMIN role.

Caution: Deleting an instance will result in the deletion of all other configuration data for that instance.

Changing the password

The Ultra Search Crawler uses the database schema password during operation. However, for better security, the Ultra Search system does not have direct access to schema passwords in the main database system. Therefore, the Ultra Search system stores a duplicate copy of the schema password. The duplicate password is specified during instance creation. If the database schema password changes, you must change the Ultra Search copy as well. Use this page to update the Ultra Search copy of the schema password associated with the current instance.

To change the password, do the following on the "Instances" page:

1. Click on the "Change password" subtab.
2. Enter the new schema password in the text field.
3. Click on "Apply". The new password will be verified against the database.