This section describes the following tasks to manage the robot:
Choose Search Servers from the menu bar. Select a search server from the list of servers.
Click Robot from the menu bar, then Status and Control from the menu.
Click Start.
For the command psadmin start-robot, the search robot does not start if no defined sites are available for the robot to crawl. The command psadmin start-robot indicates that no sites are available by displaying Starting Points: 0 defined.
Select Search Servers from the menu bar, then select a search server.
Select Robot from the menu bar then Status and Control.
Click Clear Robot Database.
The robot finds resources and determines whether to add descriptions of those resources to the database. The determination of which servers to visit and what parts of those servers to index is called a site definition.
Select Search Servers from the menu bar, then select a search server.
Select Robot from the menu bar, then Sites.
Click New under Manage Sites and specify the configuration attributes for the site.
For more information about the attributes, see Sites in Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Technical Reference.
Click OK.
Select Search Servers from the menu bar, then select a search server.
Click Robot from the menu bar, then Sites.
Click the name of the site you want to modify.
The Edit Site dialog appears.
Modify the configuration attributes as necessary.
For more information about the attributes, see Sites in Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Technical Reference
Click OK to record the changes.
The robot crawls to the various sites selected for indexing. You control how the robot crawls sites by defining crawling and indexing operational properties.
Select Search Servers from the menu bar, then select a search server.
Click Robot from the menu bar, then Properties.
Specify the robot crawling and indexing attributes as necessary.
For more information about the attributes, see Site Probe in Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Technical Reference in Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 Technical Reference.
Click Save.
The simulator performs a partial simulation of robot filtering on one or more listed site sites.
Select Search Servers from the menu bar, then select a search server.
Click Robot from the menu bar, then Utilities.
Type the URL of a new site to simulate in the Add a new URL text box and click Add.
You can also run the simulator on existing sites listed under Existing Robot sites.
Click Run Simulator.
The site probe utility checks for such information as DNS aliases, server redirects, and virtual servers.