Sharing a Search Instance Among Multiple PeopleSoft Application Systems

If you have multiple PeopleSoft applications, you can share a single search instance among the PeopleSoft systems. When sharing a search instance, keep these items in mind:

• Single sign-in needs to be implemented among all of the PeopleSoft systems sharing the search instance.

• To enable menu search in a cluster environment, you need to run the Remote Search Group Configuration plug-in in Automated Configuration Manager.

  PeopleTools delivers the Remote Search Group Configuration plug-in, which is grouped under the Cluster_Template template. See Automated Configuration Management for information on running a template.

  When you import remote search groups, source and target PeopleSoft environments have to be mapped to the same search instance. For example, if HCM is mapped to search instance 1 and FSCM is mapped to search instance 2, and if cluster environment is mapped to search instance 1, then importing search groups from HCM to cluster environment is supported, however, importing search groups from FSCM to cluster environment is not supported.

• While you do not need to synchronize user profiles among multiple PeopleSoft systems, if the same user ID exists on multiple systems, it must be associated with the same, individual user. That is, a user ID must be unique for all of the systems sharing the search instance, not just a single PeopleSoft application.