Re: Querying a remote servers catalog

answers inline.

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Hilary Cotter
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"chris" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the reply,
> Do you think that anyone would ever do something like this in the real
> world
> if you had 3 web sites with 3 million documents indexed on each server and
> have a global catalog on a 4th server with 9 million documents? Is this
> something that can be done with indexing service or do I have to use
> another
> product for something that is at an enterprise level. I have seen an
> article
> from www.microsoft.com and they mention that indexing service can handle
> small to midsize business solutions. I guess I need to know what do they
> consider to be midsize.
>
> What is the upper limit on indexing documents?
>
> 1) Is the number of documents indexed, hardware resource dependent only?
> or are there limits hard coded into indexing service to fail at a specific
> point do to the size of the catalog?

There are many variables - I believe 2 million is the figure which is
trotted out by MS support engineers. I have done 5 million.
>
> 2) If there is a limit that is hard coded in indexing service then is
> there
> a specific limit on catalog size? What is the limit?
>

No limit.

> 3) Is there a specific limit on the 'property cache'? What is the limit?
>

No limit - but the bigger the cache the worse the performance.
> Thanks for your time
> Chris
>
>
> "Hilary Cotter" wrote:
>
>> 1) yes you can, but the account you access the remote catalog must have
>> logon interactive rights on the remote machine. You must also grant the
>> everyone group read permission to the indexing Services registry keys.
>>
>> 2) Yes, not they don't have to be in the same domains, but the "crawl"
>> account must have rights to read the remote share/virtual directory. What
>> you are describing is possible but you will have to take care to
>> programmatically render vpath to point to the correct source.
>>
>> --
>> Hilary Cotter
>> Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
>> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
>>
>> Looking for a FAQ on Indexing Services/SQL FTS
>> http://www.indexserverfaq.com
>>
>> "chris" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1CA6C688-EF2D-4110-BB38-E819B6472A41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hello Everyone,
>> > I have 2 questions:
>> > 1) Is it true that you can query a remote servers catalog using asp and
>> > the
>> > index query language? If yes, then do they have to be in the same
>> > Domain?
>> > for example:objQuery.Catalog = "query://www.somehost.com/web"
>> > I read about this in an article dated back to 2002 and I wanted to see
>> > if
>> > it
>> > was still valid.
>> > You can read at:
>> > http://builder.com.com/5102-6387-1049760.html
>> >
>> > 2) Is it true that you can create a catalog on server1 to index another
>> > server, server2, by adding a virtual directory in IIS on the server1?
>> > If
>> > yes,
>> > then do they have to be in the same domain?
>> >
>> > The reason I am asking is because if you can do both of these things,
>> > then
>> > maybe this could be used as a fault tollerant and global search
>> > solution.
>> > If
>> > you have 4 web servers, 1 will be used for indexing each of the other 3
>> > servers using a catalog for each by adding adding a network share for
>> > each
>> > site on its IIS. Then a 4th catalog would be set up containg all three
>> > site
>> > in one catalog by mapping all 3 webservers as network shares in one
>> > website
>> > on IIS (for the global search). The other 3 web servers would each have
>> > their
>> > own indexing catalogs for there own site. However if any of the sites
>> > needed
>> > disaster recovery they would restore the servers from backup and
>> > instead
>> > of
>> > waiting 5 or six hours for all the content to be reindexed, they would
>> > point
>> > there queries to the 4 server who has a working catalog of each of the
>> > other
>> > 3 servers. Is this possible?
>> >
>> > Thanks for your time,
>> > Chris
>>
>>
>>


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