Add an index column (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)

 

Applies to: FAST Search Server 2010

If the total index is too large to reside on one server, you can scale out your FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint farm by adding an index column.

Warning

Before you add an index column, you must first remove all indexed content from the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint farm. Depending on the size of the deployment, it may take days to re-index the content.

To add an index column

1. Stop crawling:

   • If you use the FAST Search Content SSA to crawl content, see Start, pause, resume, or stop a crawl (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint) for information about stopping a crawl.

   • If you use the FAST Search Web crawler to crawl content, see Start, suspend, resume, or stop a crawl process (FAST Search Web crawler) for information about stopping a crawl.

   • If you use the FAST Search database connector to crawl content, see Test, start or stop a crawl (FAST Search database connector) for information about stopping a crawl.

   • If you use the FAST Search Lotus Notes connector to crawl content, see Test, start or stop a crawl (FAST Search Lotus Notes content connector) for information about stopping a crawl.

2. Pause the Web Analyzer components. These components analyze links between items and search clickthrough logs. The components must be stopped to avoid partial updates for indexed items during the procedure.

   1. On the administration server, open a FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.

      1. Verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the server where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.

      2. On the Start menu, click All Programs.

      3. Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint.

      4. Click Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint shell.

   2. Inspect the Web Analyzer schedule status:

      waadmin ShowStatus
      

      Note

      Refer to waadmin.exe reference if you use multiple views for the Web Analyzer.

      In the Views section of the command output, for the default view, inspect the Schedule status. If the Schedule status is set to paused, follow these steps:

      1. Start the Web Analyzer view:

         waadmin enqueueview
         

      2. Wait until the default Web Analyzer view is running. Type the following command to inspect the Schedule status:

         waadmin ShowStatus
         

         Repeat the command until the Schedule status is set to running.

   3. Stop Web Analyzer processing:

      waadmin AbortProcessing
      spreladmin AbortProcessing
      

3. Wait until all item processing is finished:

   psctrl status
   

   Repeat the command until all processor servers report "idle".

4. Remove all items from the content index:

   • If you use the FAST Search Content SSA to crawl content, follow the steps in Reset the content index (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint) to remove all items from the default content collection named "sp".

   • If you use the FAST Search Web crawler to crawl content, follow the steps in Reset the content index (FAST Search Web crawler) to remove all items from the content collection or collections that are associated with this connector.

   • If you use the FAST Search database connector to crawl content, follow the steps in Reset the content index (FAST Search database connector) to remove all items from the content collection or collections that are associated with this connector.

   • If you use the FAST Search Lotus Notes connector to crawl content, follow the steps in Reset the content index (FAST Search Lotus Notes connector) to remove all items from the content collection or collections that are associated with this connector.

5. Make sure that no items are indexed on any of the indexers.

   On the administration server, run the following command:

   indexerinfo -a doccount
   

   Note

   All indexers must report 0 items before you proceed to the next step.

6. Reconfigure the deployment to add an index column:

   1. Determine the changes that you must apply to the deployment configuration file (deployment.xml):

      • Add a host element for each server in the new index column.

        Note

        All index columns must have the same configuration.

   2. Follow the steps in Reconfigure the deployment including adding new servers.

7. On the administration server, run the following commands to resume processing for the Web Analyzer components:

   waadmin EnqueueView
   spreladmin Enqueue
   

8. Start a full crawl of all content:

   • If you use the FAST Search Content SSA to crawl content, see Start, pause, resume, or stop a crawl (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint) for information about starting a crawl.

   • If you use the FAST Search Web crawler to crawl content, see Start, suspend, resume, or stop a crawl process (FAST Search Web crawler) for information about starting a crawl.

   • If you use the FAST Search database connector to crawl content, see Test, start or stop a crawl (FAST Search database connector) for information about starting a crawl.

   • If you use the FAST Search Lotus Notes connector to crawl content, see Test, start or stop a crawl (FAST Search Lotus Notes content connector) for information about starting a crawl.

See Also

Reference

waadmin.exe reference
spreladmin.exe reference

Concepts

Plan FAST Search Server farm topology (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)
Manage high availability of the content index (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)
Increase query capacity (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)
deployment.xml reference
Extend content capacity for the indexer (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint)