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Administrating Solr

By : Surendra Mohan
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Administrating Solr

By: Surendra Mohan

Overview of this book

Implementing different search engines on web products is a mandate these days. Apache Solr is a robust search engine, but simply implementing Apache Solr and forgetting about it is not a good idea, especially when you have to fight for the search ranking of your web product. In such a scenario, you need to keep monitoring, administrating, and optimizing your Solr to retain your ranking. "Administrating Solr" is a practical, hands-on guide. This book will provide you with a number of clear, step-by-step exercises and some advanced concepts which will help you administrate, monitor, and optimize Solr using Drupal and associated scripts. Administrating Solr will also provide you with a solid grounding on how you can use Apache Solr with Drupal. "Administrating Solr" starts with an overview of Apache Solr and the installation process to get you familiar with Solr. It then gradually moves on to discuss the mysteries that make Solr flexible enough to render appropriate search results in different scenarios. This book will take you through clear and practical concepts that will help you monitor, administrate, and optimize your Solr appropriately using both scripts and tools. This book will also teach you ways to query your search and methods to keep your Solr healthy and well maintained. With this book, you will learn how to effectively implement and optimize Solr using Drupal.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using password-based authentication


As stated earlier, if you intend to connect to Solr, it is always recommended to use password authentication. This section will guide you with the steps to use password authentication so as to add a security layer between your application and Solr for both single user environment and multiuser environment.

When the JMX agent for remote monitoring is enabled, it uses password authentication. Depending on whether you are a single user, or multiuser, determines the way you set it up.

Tip

It is not advisable to use your regular username and password for monitoring as passwords are stored in clear text in the password file. Instead, use the usernames specified in the password file such as monitorRole and controlRole. For futher reading, refer:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/management/agent.html#PasswordAccessFiles

Singler-user environment

Set up the password file in the JRE_HOME/lib/management directory by following these instructions:

  1. Copy the...