Administration > System Settings

The System Settings page is available through a link under Administration. The page is divided into these sections:

• Email Notification
• Default Search URL
• Remote Support
• Daily Status Report

To view or edit system settings:

1. Click Administration, and then click the System Settings link.
2. Enter the required information in the editable fields.
3. Click the Update System Settings button.

Email Notification

To send automatic reports and problem reports, you can enter email addresses into the appropriate fields. Multiple email addresses must be separated by commas. The system validates and qualifies email addresses.
Suggestion: Use an alias for automatic reports.

• Automatic reports are sent if Enable Daily Status Email Messages is checked and an appropriate administrator email address and SMTP server are configured.
  
  
• Problem reports include notifications for hardware failures. This email address is also used by the gsa-crawler user agent.

• Sender of outgoing emails is the sender address you want shown to the receiver of automatic and problem reports. The default is nobody@localhost.

Default Search URL

When a user points a browser to the search appliance, the Default Search URL is the page they see. You can enter the default search URL in this text box. If you do not enter a default search URL, the user is redirected to a search on the default_collection, using the default_frontend.

If you delete the default_collection or the default_frontend and do not define a default search URL, the user will receive an error when they try to do a search. For example, if your appliance is named search.yourdomain.com, then going to http://search.yourdomain.com/ displays the default page URL. Be sure to test the URL you enter to make sure your users are redirected to the page you expect.

Note: After the new search page URL has been accepted, the change will take up to 10 minutes to appear.

You might want to redirect your users to a web page that contains a search box, whether it's a custom page you have created or the Search Index provided directly from the search appliance. To redirect your users to an existing collection, provide the URL of the collection's Search Index.

The collection's Search Index URL will be similar to the following:

http://your-appliance-name/search?site=my_collection&client=my_frontend&output =xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=my_frontend&proxycustom=<HOME/>&ie=&oe=&lr=

However, your actual URL is different from what appears here as follows:

• The variable your-appliance-name represents the name of your appliance.
• Your URL is on a single line, without spaces.

To obtain the URL of a collection's search index:

1. In the Admin Console, click the Test Center link.
2. Select the Front End name and the Collection name.
3. In Internet Explorer 6.0, right click on the search box frame and select Properties, then highlight the URL and copy it. (You may have to scroll down to get the entire URL.)

In Netscape, Firefox, and Mozilla, right click on the IFrame and select This Frame > Open Frame in New Window. Highlight the URL in the browser and copy it.
4. Close the Test Center browser window.
5. In the Admin Console, click Administration > System Settings.
6. Paste the URL in the Default Search URL field.
7. Click the Update System Settings button.

HTTP (non-SSL) Admin Console Support

If you do not trust your intranet, you may wish to disable HTTP based access to the admin console. Removing the check from this box will allow only HTTPS (SSL encrypted) access, on port 8443 (rather than the standard port 8000).

Please note that if your current session is un-encrypted and you uncheck this box, your connection may appear to freeze when you press the Update System Settings button. This is because port 8000 will become blocked for new connections. Whether continued use of your session on port 8000 creates a new connection or continues an existing one is browser and configuration dependent. To confirm that port 8000 is blocked, close your browser and re-open it. To continue administering the appliance, change the port number in your browser's web-address line from 8000 to 8443, and your web-address to start with https:// rather than http://. You will have to log-in again to continue.

Remote Support

For security reasons, the SSH port is not enabled by default. If you need Google Support to perform remote troubleshooting, and you prefer to have them use the SSH port, you can enable the SSH access by checking the Remote Support option, and saving this setting by clicking the Update System Settings button.

In addition, if your network has a firewall set up, you need to inform your system administrator to open port 22. Then, you can provide the IP address of the search appliance for Google Support to connect to.

When the remote support session is completed, Google Support engineers will remind you to disable the check box, so that no one else can perform SSH with the search appliance.

Daily Status Report

You can have a daily status report sent to the email address entered in the Email Notification text box. Check the Enable Daily Status Email Messages box to have a message like this sent daily:

Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 00:00:08 -0700
From: nobody@localhost
Subject: GID-[XXXX]: NOTIFICATION: System ***status report at 2003-07-25 00:00:07:

System Status: OK
Machines Status: OK.
Disks Status: OK.
Temperatures Status: OK.

Crawl Summary:
Documents crawled since yesterday:: 1244.0
Documents error since yesterday:: 0.0
 [This message was generated automatically @2003/07/25 00:00:08 from Hostname]