Monitoring Indexes

The Indexing Service is used to build catalogs of documents that can be searched. When you add this capability to a World Wide Web site, it allows users to search for topics of interest using a standard Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) form. Like Internet Information Services (IIS), the Indexing Service is integrated into the Microsoft Windows operation system and can be used on intranets, extranets, and the Internet. As the Web administrator, you set up the catalogs the Indexing Service needs, configure content indexing, and manage indexing on a day-to-day basis.

Once you install and configure the Indexing Service, the service automatically creates and updates indexes. The service also attempts to manage its catalogs so that the data they contain are consistent and current.

Administrator may need to monitor indexes in order to manage their volume and identify unused files for example.

To display the Indexing Service elements:

Alert Thresholds: Depending on the type of environment, and whenever possible, alert thresholds are automatically set by BMC Performance Manager Express for Microsoft Search. When the parameter value breaches these thresholds, the parameter's icon changes to notify the alert. To learn more about thresholds management, please refer to Modifying Parameter Thresholds section.