[TriLUG] Internal Search Engines/Appliances

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

IMHO, 

Don't waste your time on the enterprise-level box. There are lot of
issues we're having with it.

1) The open source connectors absolutely suck.
2) All the open source connectors are apparently built into the 5.0
release of the GSA code (coming out in October).
3) You're going to need to know kerberos authentication like the back of
your hand if you're considering indexing a clustered file system.
4) Indexing files (SMB/CIFS) returns all results as the user you
specified to have access to crawl the data instead of users
authenticating (although -- its rumored that web-enabled file shares
work fine).

I'd be glad to have a phone conference with you sometime if you
want..... 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Kevin J.
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 4:44 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Internal Search Engines/Appliances

We use the latest gen Google Mini, but it won't suit your needs if
you're searching databases. It's also reasonably pricey at $3k/100k
Documents. You can spend over $30k for the Enterprise-level Google One
appliance or look at something like Thunderstone which uses Texis
(http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/pages). You could download
Webinator from that site and load it up on a server to see if it suits
your needs.

I looked for open source search engines a while back but didn't find one
that seemed to have what we needed. Nutch definitely seems to be the
best option, but I haven't tried it.

Kevin 


----- Original Message ----
From: Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:43:55 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Internal Search Engines/Appliances

I'm in the beginning stages of looking at what our options are for a
corporate  Intranet search engine.  Ideally I would want to index all
our internal webservers and or the databases within them, plus our
SMB/CIFS.  I'm not sure I want to index mail at this point.

Matt

OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> I have quite a bit of experience with the Google Search Appliance and 
> SharePoint 2003 and 2007. What exactly is your scope for items indexed

> (SMB/CIFS/DBs/Mail?).
>
> Depending on what you're wanting to do ...I'd be glad to provide you 
> with some feedback.
>
> r/s
>
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Matt Pusateri
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 3:18 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: [TriLUG] Internal Search Engines/Appliances
>
> All,
>
> What are people doing for internal search engines for corporate 
> intranets?  htdig? Google search appliance?   I have to index things 
> from MediaWiki, Trac, phpBB, Wordpress, and M$ Sharepoint to name a
few.
> Looking to see  if there is any real world experience within Trilug on

> this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt P.
>   

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