Portal Server Search Server

Portal Server search server provides interfaces that allow end users to locate resources in a database. The search server provides the following:

• A robot to discover, convert, and summarize document resources

• An end-user interface, provided by the Desktop, using JSP providers

• Configuration tools provided by the Portal Server management console

• A command-line interface for system management

The search server supports federated search, a single search to multiple search engines, including the following:

• Google

• LDAP directory (using Java Naming and Directory Interface^TM API, or J.N.D.I. API)

• Relational database management system or RDBMS (using Java DataBase Connectivity software or JDBC^TM API)

• Remote resource description messages (RDM) interface

Federated search results are displayed on a single page.

Administrators use the Portal Server management console to perform search server administrative and configuration tasks. The Portal Server command-line interface provides psadmin subcommands for managing the search server.

For more information about the search server, see Chapter 5, “Portal Server Search Server”