Hi, You can place Solr wherever you want, but if your data is veery large, you'd want dedicated box.
Have a look at DIH (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DataImportHandler). It can both crawl a file share periodically, indexing only files changed since a timestamp (can be e.g. NOW-1HOUR) and extract resulting text using Tika. However if you require security, have a look at LCF (http://incubator.apache.org/connectors/) which adds security but may lack a powerful file crawler.. You choose how the results are presented back to the user, but normally it's a traditional web page with links which when clicked will point to that resource in some way. Wrt. user's local content - what is that? Sounds like you want to hook in to a local search on the laptop like Google does. To do that you'd have to develop a local service sitting in the system tray on each computer, exposing some API on some port. And then when user searches your search portal, e.g. search.mycompany.com/?q=foo, the GUI uses some AJAX to reach out to the local search service and filter that in to the results... -- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Training in Europe - www.solrtraining.com On 19. aug. 2010, at 21.31, Shaun McArthur wrote: > I'm looking for a Google search appliance look-a-like. We have a file share > with 1000's of documents in a hierarchy that makes it ridiculously difficult > to locate documents. > > Here are some basic questions: > > Is the idea to install Solr on separate hardware and have it crawl the file > system? > Can crawls be scheduled? > If installed on a remote server, can it be configured to insert users' local > content in search results? > I assumed that once it's functioning, users surf to a web page for results? > > Appreciate any input, and I have started to RTFJavadocs :) > Shaun > > > Shaun McArthur > Dir. Technical Operations > Autodata Solutions > Mobile : (226) 268-6458 > Skype :shaun-mcarthur >
