Crawl and Index > Feeds

You can feed (or push) documents to the search appliance. You would want to do this if you have internal documents that cannot be found by the crawler or that do not lend themselves to HTTP crawling. The data source feeds are provided through an API and are displayed on the Crawl and Index > Feeds page by the system.

Here is the information about the data source feeds that you can see on the Crawl and Index > Feeds page.

• Source Name - the name of the data source. The first character of the data source name must be from this set: [a-zA-Z_]. The second and remaining characters must be from this set: [a-zA-Z0-9_-]. Subsequent characters can contain only alphanumeric characters, underscores, and hyphens.
• Feed Type - Full, Incremental, Metadata and URL, and Web. If the full, incremental, or web feed has been deleted, the column entry will show "Deleted." Metada and url feeds cannot be deleted.
• Time - The system's time-stamp at the start of each stage.
• Status - In progress (indexing), completed (queued and now serving), completed with errors (some documents had errors), and failed in error (all documents failed to be added to the feed). Note that the Status column contains clickable links leading to more information about the status of the documents.
• Documents included - the number of documents finished indexing.
• Documents with errors - the number of documents that had errors and were not added to the feed.

The List of Trusted IP Addresses section lets you choose either to trust feeds from all IP addresses on your network or to list those IP addresses to trust. If you select the second option, you enter the IP addresses of trusted machines. The system accepts individual IP addresses of the format X.X.X.X, where X represents one octet of a value from 0 to 255. The system also accepts subnet IP addresses in the format X.X.X.X/Y where Y represents the subnet mask in a range of 0 to 32.

If you need to add more addresses, click the Add More Rows button. When finished, click the Save Settings button.

If you delete a feed data source, all documents associated with the feeds from that source are removed from the index.

To delete a feed configuration:

1. Select the Delete link under the source name.
2. Click Yes to confirm the deletion.