The Robot Overview panel is where you can see what the robot is doing. If it is Off, Idle, Running, or Paused; and if it is Running, what progress it is making in the search since the panel is refreshed about every 30 seconds. The refresh rate is defined using the robot-refresh parameter in the search.conf file.
If the robot is Off, the buttons are Start and Clear Robot Database . The Start button is at the top and the Clear Robot Database button is at the bottom of the panel. If the robot is Running or Idle, the two buttons are Stop and Pause. If it is Paused, the two buttons are Stop and Resume. By selecting on any of the Attributes, you go to the Reports section where you can get a detailed up-to-the-minute report of that Attribute.
The table below lists the Robot Overview attributes and their description.
Table 4–1 Robot Overview Attributes
Attribute |
Default Value |
Description |
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The Robot is |
Current activity |
The Robot’s state. Value can be Idle, Running, Paused, or Off |
Last Updated at |
Date and time last refreshed. |
This page is refreshed to keep you aware of what progress the robot is making. |
Starting Points |
Number defined |
Displays the sites that the robot crawls to generate resource descriptions. The robot does not index resources from disabled sites. |
URL Pool |
Number URLs waiting |
Number of URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) yet to be investigated. When you begin a search, the starting point URLs are entered into the URL pool. As the search progresses, the robot discovers links to other URLs. These URLs get added to the pool. After all the URLs in the pool have been processed, the URL pool is empty and the robot is idle. |
Extracting |
Number connections per second |
Number of resources looked at in a second. Extracting is the process of discovering or locating resources, documents or hyperlinks to be included in the database and filtering out unwanted items. |
Filtering |
Number URLs rejected |
Total number of URLs that are excluded. |
Indexing |
Number URLs per second |
Number of resources or documents turned into a resource description in a second. Indexing is the phase when all the information that has been gathered on a document is turned into a resource description for inclusion in the search database. |
Excluded URLs |
Number URLs excluded by filters |
Number of URLs that did not meet the filtering criteria. |
Number URLs excluded by errors |
Number of URLs where the robot encountered errors as file not found. |
|
Resource Descriptions |
Number RDs contributed |
Number of resource descriptions added to the database. |
Number Bytes of RDs contributed |
Number of bytes added to the database. |
|
General Stats |
Number URLs retrieved |
Number of URLs retrieved during run. |
Number Bytes average size of RDs | ||
Time in days, hours, minutes, and seconds running |
The amount of time the robot has been running. |