Setting Up the Crawl

Crawl is the process by which the Google Search Appliance and Google Mini locate content to be indexed. You define the start URLs to be crawled, URLs that are crawled or excluded from the crawl, and file types to include or exclude.

 

When you complete the process described in Configuring the Network Settings, the crawl is not started. This section contains instructions for connecting to the Admin Console, entering start URLs and URL patterns, starting the crawl process, and confirming that the crawl is proceeding normally. For complete information on crawl, start URLs, and URL patterns, see Administering Crawl for Web and File Share Content.

 

To obtain context-sensitive help from any page in the Admin Console, click the Help link. You can also view help pages when you click the Help Center link in the horizontal blue bar in the upper right of the screen.

Note.pngThe instructions contained in this section were taken directly from the Google website. Any data included in the steps specific to Personify are called out as such.

The high-level steps for setting up the initial crawl are:

1.    Log in to the Admin Console

2.    Set Up and Starting the Crawl

3.    Check the Crawl Status

4.    Check the Serving Status