8.4 Completing the Expandable Filr Deployment

Figure 8-7 When One Filr Appliance Is Configured for “Filr Clustering,” All of Them Are

Table 8-7 Enabling Filr-based Clustering

Page, Dialog, or Option	Do This
Configuration Summary	In the Configuration panel, click Clustering.
Clustering	Select Enable Clustered Environment. The JVM Route field is used only if you are setting up Apache load balancing, and is used to uniquely identify this appliance. In many cases, the hostname (automatically supplied) will suffice, but you can customize it if needed. In the Server Address field, make sure that both Filrsearch appliances in your deployment are listed. Separate the appliances with a space. Use either IP addresses or fully-qualified hostnames to identify the appliances. Click OK. Click Reconfigure Filr Server. The Filr appliance is reconfigured and restarted. Subsequently, the configuration is shared by each Filr appliance through the /vashare mount point.

Page, Dialog, or Option

Do This

Configuration Summary

Clustering

Select Enable Clustered Environment.
The JVM Route field is used only if you are setting up Apache load balancing, and is used to uniquely identify this appliance. In many cases, the hostname (automatically supplied) will suffice, but you can customize it if needed.
In the Server Address field, make sure that both Filrsearch appliances in your deployment are listed. Separate the appliances with a space. Use either IP addresses or fully-qualified hostnames to identify the appliances.
Click OK.
Click Reconfigure Filr Server.

The Filr appliance is reconfigured and restarted.

Subsequently, the configuration is shared by each Filr appliance through the /vashare mount point.

Figure 8-8 The Filr Appliances Are Individually Configured to Use Both Filrsearch Appliances

Table 8-8 Configuring High-availability Searching

Page, Dialog, or Option	Do This
Configuration Summary	In the Configuration panel, click Search Appliance.
Search Appliance	Click the Configuration Type drop-down list and select High Availability. Type the Lucene service password that you set in Table 8-3. Notice that the Filrsearch appliance you configured for this Filr appliance is listed under Name. Click Add.
New Search Node	In the Name: field, type an arbitrary name for the second appliance. In the Host Name: field, type the DNS host name of the other Filrsearch appliance. Click OK.
Search Appliance	Click OK.
Configuration	Click Reconfigure Filr Server. The appliance is reconfigured and restarted. However, in contrast with the process in Table 8-7, the Search Appliance configuration is not propagated to the other Filr appliances. In the upper-right corner, click Log out.
	Log in to the next Filr appliance and repeat the steps in this table. When all of the Filr appliances have been configured for high-availability searching, continue with Dedicating a Filr Appliance to Indexing and Net Folder Synchronization.