This section addresses prerequisites and preliminary configuration procedures that must be followed before installing ATG Search.
If you are planning to use this installation to run Search Administration, before you install ATG Search, install your application server and the ATG platform. If you are only planning to run the standalone Search engine, you do not need the ATG platform or an application server.
If you are running other ATG applications along with Search, install in the following order:
ATG Platform
ATG Search
Other ATG applications
You will need a scalable shared network drive where indexes are initially created and from which they can be deployed. All Search engines must have access to this directory. Indexes can take up a great deal of disk space, so be sure the directory selected has at least 5-10 GB available (more if your index is large). This directory must be writable.
Note: The deployment directory must be created and configured as a shared folder prior to installing ATG Search. In a production site, this directory should be located on a separate, high-performance machine.
