Overview of Search Services

As an administrator, Search is where you create and delete jobs or collections of jobs to be indexed in the search engine. You can also manage search processes.

The core of WebLogic Administration Portal Search is the Dynamic Reasoning Engine (DRE). The DRE inserts and retrieves data into an index relevant to a particular query. The DRE accepts a Boolean term or natural language question and returns a list of documents containing the terms ordered by contextual relevance to the query.

WebLogic Administration Portal Search supports indexing from three types of data sources:

• Auto Indexer (for documents in the local file structure)
• HTTP Fetch Jobs (for documents on the Web)
• ODBC Fetch Jobs (for documents in a database)

Note: The ODBC Fetch Jobs require an ODBC database driver.

Related Topics:

• Start a Search Service
• Stop a Search Service
• Pause a Search Service
• Restart a Search Service
• Restart the DRE
• Create a New HTTP Fetch Job
• Delete an HTTP Fetch Job
• Create a New Database within the DRE
• Delete a Database within the DRE
• Create a New Auto Indexer Job
• Delete an Auto Indexer Job