Adding Existing Collections

The AnswerBook2 server can scan your current system to find locally installed AnswerBook1 and AnswerBook2 collections and add them to the server's database. To have the server perform this function for you, select Scan for Locally Installed Collections from the Admin GUI. This function creates and displays a list of all valid document collections it finds on the local system.

To add a collection to the server's database:

1. Click on the checkbox next to the collection you want to add.

2. When you have selected all the collections you want, click on Add Selected Collections.

Collections that do not have a checkbox next to them are already in the database.

If the list does not include document collections that are installed on a local mount point, verify that the directory into which the collections were installed has read access set for others.

You can also use the following command to perform this function:

% /usr/lib/ab2/bin/ab2admin -o scan

The command line scanning function adds all the collections it finds; it does not allow you to choose which collections to add.

After you install a collection, you must restart the documentation server. To restart the documentation server, click Restart on the Admin GUI's status page or type the following from the command line:

# /usr/lib/ab2/bin/ab2admin -o restart