The problem is that as soon as the indexer touches the documents, DiskXtender will pull them back from secondary storage (tape, optical etc) to primary storage (disk). This will fill up the primary storage pretty quickly in the case of a full crawl...
I have been informed of a DX Search Module, I'm hoping that it supports Open Search so that I can federate the results using SharePoint. (Or write something that exposes the indexes Open Search style). Another option I'm investigating is leveraging 'direct read' of the secondary storage device. Not sure how this works as yet... Looks like this is going to be a fun solution! - Brendan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wampers, Wilson [Talent International] Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2008 11:04 AM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] How to index an EMC Centera/DiskXtender storage environment Hi Brendan, I see a possible solution in building a web service (providing physical links to the documents, like a sitemap) as a data source for the BDC or a separate BDC and search index. Let me know how you go. Kind Regards, Wilson Wampers SharePoint Architect Chevron Australia Pty Ltd From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brendan Law Sent: Tuesday, 28 October 2008 08:37 To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] How to index an EMC Centera/DiskXtender storage environment Wouldn't this only index the document metadata though? I'm keen to index the document content as well... - Brendan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wampers, Wilson [Talent International] Sent: Monday, 27 October 2008 4:13 PM To: listserver@ozMOSS.com Subject: RE: [OzMOSS] How to index an EMC Centera/DiskXtender storage environment Hi Brendan, This is an excellent case for BDC integration. You can build a BDC application lob instance that has a method with a specific finder method instance and an enumerator method instance so this becomes a search crawl able application and use it to configure an search index, hence search integration. Some useful links: http://blah.winsmarts.com/2007-4-SharePoint_2007__BDC_-_The_Hello_World_Example.aspx http://blah.winsmarts.com/2007-4-SharePoint_2007__BDC_-_Writing_Custom_Code_against_the_runtime_object_model.aspx http://www.simego.com/Download.aspx http://sharepoint-sezai-moss-2007.blogspot.com/2008/02/moss-2007-custom-search.html Kind Regards, Wilson Wampers From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brendan Law Sent: Monday, 27 October 2008 13:38 To: listserver@ozmoss.com Subject: [OzMOSS] How to index an EMC Centera/DiskXtender storage environment I need to know how to index a Centera DiskXtender file storage environment using Microsoft Search (in this case MOSS 2007). We want to have a federated search solution for users who are located all over the country and in NZ. I know we can do it with SharePoint/Search Server, but the Centera/DiskXtender part is a bit of an unknown... I'm thinking custom protocol handler to retrieve the document from secondary storage, index it and then tell Centera to put it back again... Unless there is an easier way? Has anyone done this/seen a solution that does this? Brendan Law Senior Consulting Engineer Thomas Duryea Consulting m: 0401 440 850 p: 03 8420 0100 f: 03 8420 0101 [cid:image001.jpg@01C938F0.9376C230]<http://www.td.com.au/> ________________________________ This email is intended for the named recipient only. The information contained in this message may be confidential, or commercially sensitive. If you are not the intended recipient you must not reproduce or distribute any part of the email, disclose its contents to any other party, or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and please delete this message completely from any systems. 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