8.8.2. Configuring Satellite Search

search.index_work_dir : Specifies where Lucene indexes are kept (/usr/share/rhn/search/indexes)

search.rpc_handlers : semi-colon separated list of classes to act as handlers for XMLRPC calls.

(filename>index:com.redhat.satellite.search.rpc.handlers.IndexHandler,
db:com.redhat.satellite.search.rpc.handlers.DatabaseHandler,
admin:com.redhat.satellite.search.rpc.handlers.AdminHandler)

search.max_hits_returned : maximum number of results which will be returned for the query (500)

search.connection.driver_class : JDBC driver class to conduct database searches (oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver)

search.score_threshold : minimum score a result needs to be returned back as query result (.10)

search.system_score_threshold : minimum score a system search result needs to be returned back as a query result (.01)

search.errata_score_threshold : minimum score an errata search result needs to be returned back as a query result (.20)

search.errata.advisory_score_threshold : minimum score an errata advisory result needs to be returned back as a query result (.30)

search.min_ngram : minimum length of n-gram characters. Note that any change to this value requires clean-index to be run, and doc-indexes need to be modified and rebuilt) (1)

search.max_ngram : maximum length of n-gram characters. Note that any change to this value requires clean-index to be run, and doc-indexes need to be modified and rebuilt) (5)

search.doc.limit_results : type true to limit the number of results both on search.score_threshold and restrict max hits to be below search.max_hits_returned; type false means to return all documentation search matches (false)

search.schedule.interval : input the time in miliseconds to control the interval with which the SearchServer polls the database for changes; the default is 5 minutes (300000).

search.log.explain.results : used during development and debugging. If set to true, this will log additional information showing what influences the score of each result. (false)