Update information related to the activity stream search
service and manage the collection of activity stream data.
Before you begin
To access the activity stream service administrative user
interface, you must be assigned the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server
search-admin role. For more information about this role, see the Roles topic.
About this task
You can access options for managing the activity stream search
service from the Activity Stream Search Administration page.
From this page, you can update the settings for the activity stream
source, check the status of the activity stream search service, see
when it was last updated, and when the next update is due.The activity
stream source publishes metadata about activity stream entries and
collects that metadata in an index. The metadata is collected automatically
on a schedule, but you can also collect data manually, delete data
from the index, and disable the schedule using the options available
from the administration page.
Procedure
Administer activity stream search by performing the following
steps.
- To access the Activity Stream Search Administration page,
enter the following URL in your browser and log in using your admin
user credentials:
http://server_name/news/web/activityStreamSearchAdmin/activityStreamSearchAdmin.action
There is no link provided from the IBM Connections user interface, you must access
the page using the direct URL.
- To manage the activity stream search service, perform the
following tasks:
- To view the number of documents in the index, see the Number
of items column.
- To check whether the scheduler is enabled, view the Status column.
When the scheduler is enabled, you can see the result of the last
crawl; otherwise, the status displays as Disabled.
When the scheduler is disabled, periodic crawling does not take place,
but the search operation still works on existing indexed content.
- To edit the activity stream source, click Edit
Details. Update the following fields as needed, and then
click OK:
- Name. The name of the source. The source
is the service that you are crawling.
- Server URL. The web address of the local IBM Connections server. The source
and its server URL are automatically created when the News application
starts up for the first time after the product is installed.
- Seedlist URL. The web address of the seedlist
that will be crawled. By default, the URL points to localhost, which
means that crawling is done programmatically instead of using HTTP.
- Collect every. The interval at which new
data is collected from the activity stream. The default setting is
30 seconds.
- To manage source metadata collection, click More
actions and select one of the following options:
- Collect Data. Crawls the activity stream
content and collects new data. Select this option when you want to
crawl for new data immediately, without waiting for the next scheduled
crawl. When the crawler is disabled, you can still use this option
to manually collect data from existing indexed content.
- Clear Data. Deletes activity stream metadata
from the index. Select this option when you want to delete the indexed
content and perform a full crawl. This option is useful when you want
to investigate unexpected issues but should not be used frequently
as it is resource intensive.
- Disable Schedule. Disables the crawler.
Selecting this option disables the collection of metadata but it does
not delete existing metadata from the index. When you install IBM Connections, the schedule is
disabled by default.