When you add a node to the News cluster to ensure high
availability for activity stream search requests, you must copy the
activity stream search index to the new node. Before copying the index,
ensure that you disable scheduled metadata collections.
Procedure
To copy the activity stream search index to a new node,
complete the following steps.
- Access the Activity Stream Search Administration page
by entering the following URL in your browser and logging in using
your admin user credentials:
http://server_name/news/web/activityStreamSearchAdmin/activityStreamSearchAdmin.action
- Disable source metadata collection by selecting . This action stops future collections, but it does
not delete existing metadata from the index.
- Copy the activity stream search index folder from an existing
node to the new node by following these steps:
- Log in to the Integrated Solutions Console and click .
- Click cluster_name,
where cluster_name is the name of the News cluster.
- In the Additional Properties area, expand Cluster
members and then click Details.
- In the table of cluster members, make a note of the
nodes that host the cluster members.
- Copy the activity stream search index folder from an
existing node to the new node.
The activity stream search
index is located in the ActivityStream folder that is defined by the
ACTIVITY_STREAM_SEARCH_INDEX_DIR WebSphere® Application
Server variable.
The default location of the variable is \opt\IBM\Connections\DataLocal\news\search\index.
The activity stream search index is located in the ActivityStream
subfolder that is created under the path.
See
Configuring
activity stream search index settings for information about
how to configure the ACTIVITY_STREAM_SEARCH_INDEX_DIR variable.
- To reenable source metadata collection, return to the Activity
Stream Search Administration page using the URL in step
1, and select .