Configuring a Search Host Master Server
To install a Search Host Master Server, configure your Search Host as the Master Server in the Search Host configuration tool.
About this task
By default, the Master Server only performs indexing. To make it perform search as well, place it behind a Network Load Balancer together with the Slave Servers.
Procedure
- Install a Search Host service on a dedicated machine using the Content Manager installer.
- Open PowerShell and navigate to the folder %TRIDION_HOME%\bin\, which contains the PowerShell script Configure-Search-Host.ps1.
- Run this script with the single parameter
master. - In Services in the Control Panel, restart the Windows service called SDL Web Content Manager Search Host.
- Access the solr-tomcat\conf\ subfolder of the root location and open the file web.xml for reading.
- In the
security-roleelement, find therole-nameelement to identify the user group. All Slave Servers must configure the same Master Server user, who must be a Windows local user and a member of this user group. - To verify, visit the Solr Admin Console at http://DEDICATEDSERVER:8983/#/tridion/, where DEDICATEDSERVER is the name of the machine, and where 8983 may be a different port if you configured one, and check if the replication settings you see are correct.