How to troubleshoot if a thesaurus entry is working I am using a thesaurus entry but I’m not sure it is firing. How can I tell whether this entry is being used by the MDEX Engine?Enable the –whymatch option on the MDEX Engine. Using an Endeca Reference application, search for the term that should trigger the thesaurus entry. The reference […]
Oracle Endeca Cluster Setup
Creating cluster environment for Oracle Endeca. CAS is not included in the guide. Hardware Requirements Recommended hardware from Oracle Endeca Linux on x64 or Windows on x64 Minimum hardware requirements: • x64 processor, minimum 1.8 GHz • At least 2 GB of RAM, depending on the size of the application data set • 80 GB hard drive Recommended hardware requirements: • […]
Oralce Endeca Match Modes
Introduction Oracle Endeca, by default, will return results that match all of the users search terms for a given query to the engine. In most cases this is not desirable as it will require all the terms entered by a user match before a result is returned. For any query the match mode can be specified so that more desirable […]
Setting Up Tools And Frameworks
Error encounter while making Tools and Framework up and running Following are some of the errors and there fixes we got for Tool And Framework setup. [root@endeca bin]# sh deploy.sh –app /endeca/ToolsAndFrameworks/3.1.0/reference/discover-data/deploy.xml Can’t locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./../lib /tmp/original_perl_build_dir/lib/5.8.3/i686-linux /tmp/original_perl_build_dir/lib/5.8.3 /tmp/original_perl_build_dir/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/i686-linux /tmp/original_perl_build_dir/lib/site_perl/5.8.3 /tmp/original_perl_build_dir/lib/site_perl .) at ./../lib/deploy.pl line 13. BEGIN failed–compilation aborted at ./../lib/deploy.pl line 13. Run following command […]
Disable “WARNING: Parameters: Invalid chunk ignored.” messages in Tomcat log
To disable this message you need to modify logging properties file. If you have logging.properties in your tomcat/conf folder then make changes there. Otherwise modify jre’s file. Add to the end of /usr/local/java/jre/lib/logging.properties this line: org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Parameters.level = SEVERE Restart tomcat. The reason for this message is some problem with url’s parameters format, like && in the begining of parameters etc. […]
Tomcat Access Logging Configuration
Monitoring who is using your server or if we want to record site activity, (hits, page views, errors). Setting up Logging To setup access logging, edit the Tomcat server configuration file, ${tomcat_home}/conf/server.xml and uncomment the AccessLogValve: <Valve className=”org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve” directory=”logs” prefix=”localhost_access_log.” suffix=”.txt” pattern=”common” resolveHosts=”false”/> By default the log files are created in the ${tomcat_home}/logs directory and roll over to a new file at midnight. […]
Oracle Endeca Common Performance Problems
Info from MDEX Engine Performance Testing Best Practices Engine Feature/Query function Comments setNavAllRefinements / allgroups=1 Automatically expands all of the available dimensions and calculates available values for each dimension. The operation is very computational intensive as it requires the MDEX Engine to calculate not only which dimension values are available, for all possible dimensions, but depending on configuration of the […]
Oracle Endeca Getting Started
Backbone for all Oracle Endeca Solution is Oracle Endeca Server (formerly Endeca MDEX) which is used as indexing and query engine. What Is Oracle Endeca & Where it is used Endeca is a Information Access & Search Platform Endeca for B2B eCommerce Endeca for Web Site Search Endeca for Product Data Navigation, etc. Oracle Endeca Different Components Endeca Information Transformation […]
Oracle Endeca Enterprise Search
What Is Enterprise Search? An enterprise search system provides extensive capabilities for searching any number of structured and unstructured data sources with a single query. So what are structured and unstructured data sources? Data can be designated as unstructured or structured data for classification within an organization. The term unstructured data refers to any data that has no identifiable structure. […]