WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition : fast track implementation / Nagraj Alur ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alur, Nagraj., Author.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web servers.

Client/server computing.

Database management.

Business--Data processing.

Business.

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

xii, 626 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Jose, CA : IBM Corp., International Technical Support Organization, c2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This IBM Redbooks publication provides a detailed description of WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition technology and documents the procedures for implementing it in a single-server Windows 2000 environment and a multiple-server AIX environment. Supported data sources include DB2, Oracle, Windows and UNIX file systems, Web sites, news groups, DB2 Content Manager, WebSphere Information Integrator Content Edition, Lotus Notes, and Microsoft Exchange. The book includes support for administrative-level, collection-level, and document-level security, and offers a custom portlet search application with viewer applications for accessing DB2, file systems, and news groups. Best practices recommendations are provided where appropriate. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Chapter 1. WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition architecture

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Overview

1.2.1 WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition architecture

1.2.2 Supported topologies

1.2.3 Directory structure

1.3 Collections, categorizations and scopes

1.3.1 Collections

1.3.2 Categories

1.3.3 Scopes

1.3.4 Choosing between categories and scopes

1.4 Security considerations

1.4.1 Enabling global security in IBM WebSphere Application Server

1.4.2 Administrative-level access control

1.4.3 Collection-level access control

1.4.4 Document-level access control

1.4.5 Data encryption security

1.5 Processing flow and best practices

1.5.1 Configuration flow

1.5.2 Run-time flow

1.5.3 Query execution flow

1.6 Choosing a particular topology

1.7 Enterprise search administrator main focus

Chapter 2. Four-node AIX configuration

2.1 Business requirement

2.2 Environment configuration

2.3 Step-by-step setup

2.3.1 Step 1: Collect topology and configuration information

2.3.2 Step 2: Install WebSphere Information Integrator OmniFind Edition

2.3.3 Step 3: Configure the environment

2.3.4 Step 4: Configure administrative and collection-level security

2.3.5 Step 5: Sample queries

Chapter 3. Single-node Windows 2000 configuration

3.1 Business requirement

3.2 Environment configuration

3.3 Step-by-step setup

3.3.1 Step 1: Collect topology and configuration information

3.3.2 Step 2: Install WebSphere Information Integrator

3.3.3 Step 3: Configure the WebSphere II OmniFind environment

3.3.4 Step 4: Configure administrative and collection-level security

3.3.5 Step 5: Sample queries.

Appendix A. Template for topology and configuration information

Introduction

Host information template

Collection information template

Security information template

Crawler properties templates

UNIX file system crawler properties template

Web crawler properties template

DB2 crawler properties template

The crawler properties template

NNTP crawler properties template

Microsoft Exchange crawler properties template

DB2 Content Manager crawler properties

Domino crawler properties template

System resources information template

Appendix B. Data sources used in the IBMSI and IBMHR collections

IBMSI collection data sources

IBMHR collection data sources

Appendix C. Prerequisite software for crawlers

WebSphere II Content Edition data source

Step 1: Install WebSphere Information Integrator Content Edition V8.2

Step 2: Run the setup script for the VeniceBridge crawler

Step 3: Stop and restart the enterprise search administration console

Step 4: Copy files in WebSphere Information Integrator Content Edition environment

DB2 Content Manager data source

Step 1: Install Java connector for Content Manager Version 8

Step 2: Catalog remote DB2 Content Manager library server database

Step 3: Run the setup script for the DB2 Content Manager crawler

Stop and restart the enterprise search administration console

Lotus Notes data source

Step 1: Create the user notes and group notes on the crawler server

Step 2: Install Lotus Domino Server Version 6.0.2 or later

Step 3: Run the setup script for the Lotus Notes crawler

Step 4: Stop and restart the enterprise search administration console

Appendix D. Code and configuration files

Custom portlet search applications

config.properties files

LDAP contents

Appendix E. Additional material.

Locating the Web material

Using the Web material

System requirements for downloading the Web material

How to use the Web material

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other publications

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Help from IBM

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"This edition applies to Version 8, release 2, modification 1 of WebSphere Information Integrator Omnifind Edition (product number 5724-C74)."

"July 2005."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

80245743