Administrating Solr

Surendra Mohan

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781783283255
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Web Development
• Index: Computer Science

In Detail

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.

Approach

A fast-paced, example-based guide to learning how to administrate, monitor, and optimize Apache Solr.

Who this book is for

"Administrating Solr" is for developers and Solr administrators who have a basic knowledge of Solr and who are looking for ways to keep their Solr server healthy and well maintained. A basic working knowledge of Apache Lucene is recommended, but this is not mandatory.

Administrating Solr

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Administrating Solr

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Searching Data

Installation

Request/response handling

Querying

Querying based on a particular field value

Searching for a phrase

Boosting phrases over words

Prioritizing your document in search results

Query nesting

Faceted search

Search based on the same value range

Filter your facet results

Autosuggest feature using faceting

Geospatial search

Storing geographical points in the index

Sort results by a distance from a point

Distributed search

Summary

2. Monitoring Solr

Monitoring metrics

Stats.jsp

JMX MBeans

Solr with JMX

Using password-based authentication

Singler-user environment

Multiuser environment

Agent-less health checks

Ping status

Agent-based health checks

Monitoring tools

Opsview

Solr-specific plugin

Service check set up

Host configuration

Viewing output

New Relic for PHP

Features

System requirement

SPM

What are SPM monitors?

Features

Summary

3. Managing Solr

Basic Solr scripts

User scripts.conf

Init script

Backup your Solr

Using the Solr replication handler

Backup scripts from earlier Solr releases

Configuring logging

Temporary logging settings

Permanent logging settings

Tomcat logging settings

Jetty logging settings

Collection distribution scripts

Scripts configuration

Rsyncd set up

Summary

4. Optimizing Solr Tools and Scripts

Business rules

Drools

Drools language features

Drools rule format

Drools rule language (DRL)

Domain-specific language

Guided rule editor

Other Drools features

XML rule language

Why rules?

The rule engine workflow

Benefits of using rules

Language Detection

Configuring language detection

Tika language detection

LangDetect language detection

OpenNLP (Natural Language Processing)

Sentence detection and splitting

Tokenization

Part-Of-Speech tagging

Named entity recognition

Case study – Apache Solr with Drupal 7

Autocomplete

Faceted search

Facet slider

Boosting search relevancy

Prioritizing search results

Customizing the search result display

Summary

A. Solr Resources

Index

Administrating Solr

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About the Author

Surendra Mohan is currently a Drupal Consultant cum Architect at a well-known software consulting organization in India. Prior to joining this organization, he served a few Indian MNCs, and a couple of startups in varied roles such as Programmer, Technical Lead, Project Lead, Project Manager, Solution Architect, and Service Delivery Manager. He has around nine years of working experience in Web Technologies covering media and entertainment, real-estate, travel and tours, publishing, e-learning, enterprise architecture, and so on. He is also a speaker cum trainer, who delivers talks on Drupal, Open Source, PHP, Moodle, and so on along with organizing and delivering TechTalks in Drupal meetups and Drupal Camps in Mumbai, India.

He had also reviewed other technical books such as Drupal 7 Multi Site Configuration, Drupal Search Engine Optimization, titles on Drupal commerce, ElasticSearch, Drupal related video tutorials and many more.

I would like to thank my family and friends who supported and encouraged me in completing my reviews on time with good quality.

About the Reviewers

Aamir Hussain is a well-versed software design engineer with more than four years experience. He has excelled at problems involving breadth. He is an expert in internals knowledge gained in debugging Linux, Mac OS X, and third party components. He has developed complex software systems using Python/Django, Apache Solr, MySql, MongoDB, HTML, XML/XSD/XSLT, JavaScript, SQL, CSS, and lot more open source technologies. He is very determined to get top quality job done by continu...

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