Documentum Xplore Administration Guide
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EMC ® Documentum ® xPlore Version 1.0 Administration Guide EMC Corporation Corporate Headquarters: Hopkinton, MA 01748-9103 1-508-435-1000 www.EMC.com Copyright© 2010 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC believes the information in this publication is accurate as of its publication date. The information is subject to change without notice. THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION IS PROVIDED AS IS. EMC CORPORATION MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PUBLICATION, AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Use, copying, and distribution of any EMC software described in this publication requires an applicable software license. For the most up-to-date listing of EMC product names, see EMC Corporation Trademarks on EMC.com. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. Table of Contents Preface ................................................................................................................................ 11 Chapter 1 Overview of xPlore ...................................................................................... 13 Features and limitations.................................................................................... 13 Indexing features.......................................................................................... 13 Indexing limitations...................................................................................... 13 Search features ............................................................................................. 14 Search limitations ......................................................................................... 14 Administration............................................................................................. 14 Indexing and search: FAST and xPlore compared ........................................... 14 Administration differences........................................................................ 15 Indexing differences ................................................................................. 15 Search differences..................................................................................... 15 Architectural overview ..................................................................................... 16 xPlore physical and logical architecture.............................................................. 17 Physical architecture..................................................................................... 17 xPlore disk areas ...................................................................................... 17 xPlore instances........................................................................................ 18 xDB libraries ............................................................................................ 19 Indexes .................................................................................................... 20 Logical architecture ...................................................................................... 21 Physical and logical component mapping ...................................................... 24 Documentum domains and categories ............................................................... 25 Documentum collections data model (dm_fulltext_collection) ............................. 26 How Content Server documents are indexed...................................................... 27 How Content Server documents are queried ...................................................... 29 Chapter 2 Managing the System .................................................................................. 31 Using xPlore administrator ............................................................................... 32 xPlore administrator home page.................................................................... 32 Viewing services........................................................................................... 32 Global configuration......................................................................................... 33 Tasks outside xPlore administrator .................................................................... 33 Managing disk space ........................................................................................ 35 Using the xDB admin tool ................................................................................. 36 Modifying indexserverconfig.xml ...................................................................... 36 Displaying and configuring the system .............................................................. 37 Configuring system metrics............................................................................... 38 Starting and stopping the system....................................................................... 38 Managing the status database............................................................................ 38 Managing domains........................................................................................... 39 Execute XQuery............................................................................................ 39 EMC Documentum xPlore Version 1.0 Administration Guide 3 Table of Contents Create a domain ........................................................................................... 39 Configure a domain...................................................................................... 40 Attach or detach a domain or collection ......................................................... 40 Check database consistency........................................................................... 40 Database performance statistics ..................................................................... 40 Managing instances .......................................................................................... 40 Add or delete an instance.............................................................................. 41 Configure an instance ................................................................................... 41 Start or stop an instance ................................................................................ 42 Getting instance status .................................................................................. 42 Managing spare and failed instances.................................................................. 42 Using the watchdog service............................................................................... 45 Chapter 3 Managing Security ....................................................................................... 47 Documentum search results security.................................................................. 47 Configuring the security cache .......................................................................... 48 Configuring results summary security ............................................................... 49 Troubleshooting security................................................................................... 49 Viewing security in the log............................................................................ 49 Verifying security settings in the Content Server............................................. 50 Determining the area of failure...................................................................... 51 The wrong number of results are returned ..................................................... 51 Query execution is slow ................................................................................ 52 Troubleshooting a DFC client ........................................................................ 52 How xPlore replicates security .......................................................................... 52 Chapter 4 Managing the Index Agent ........................................................................... 53 Documentum attributes that control indexing .................................................... 53 Configuring the index agent.............................................................................. 53 Setting up index agents for ACLs and groups................................................. 54 Filtering content and locations........................................................................... 55 Making types non-indexable ......................................................................... 55 Indexing metadata only for specific formats ................................................... 55 Using the index agent filters .......................................................................... 56 Migrating a limited set of object types............................................................ 57 Removing entries from the index ................................................................... 58 Resubmitting documents for indexing ............................................................... 58 Mapping file stores and content......................................................................... 58 Mapping file stores in shared directories ........................................................ 58 Mapping Content Server storage areas to collections....................................... 60 Running the state of the index job...................................................................... 60 Chapter 5 Managing Document Processing (CPS) ...................................................... 63 Adding a remote CPS