Search Servers Tab

The Portal Server management console's Search Servers page allows portal administrators to manage the search server. This page allows administrators to perform the following functions:

• Set up a search server

• Remove a search server

• View basic identifying information about each search server

In addition, administrators can click the name of a specific search server to access pages for managing it. The pages allow administrators to perform the following functions:

• View configuration details for a search server

• Configure and control a search server

• View the status of a search server robot and manage robot behavior

• Manage a search server databases, and on nonfederated databases, re-index, purge, analyze, manage, and expire resource descriptions

• View and manage search server taxonomy

• Manage SharePoint search services

  • Create and delete SharePoint sites

  • Configure and control SharePoint services

• Schedule robot start and stop times

• View log files and reports on the robot, user searches, and excluded URLs