Google Search Appliance Getting the Most from Your Google Search Appliance - Manual (Page 53)

Google Search Appliance: Getting the Most from Your Google Search Appliance Search Experience 53
Enabling User Alerts
The Google Search Appliance enables users to monitor topics of interest with its alerts feature. Alerts
are email updates of the latest relevant search results based on a user’s topic of interest.
A user sets up an alert by clicking My Alerts on the search page, logging in to the search appliance by
using her LDAP user name and password, and choosing an hourly, weekly, or monthly schedule. After
the user creates an alert, the search appliance sends the user an email whenever it finds new or
changed documents about the topic of interest.
Setting Up Alerts
Alerts require that the user authenticate using their LDAP credentials. This means that an LDAP server,
populated with the users email must be present and accessible by the search appliance for Alerts to
function.
Set up alerts by performing the following steps with the Admin Console:
1. Configuring an authentication method by using the Search > Secure Search > Universal Login
Auth Mechanisms page.
2. Enabling alerts for the search appliance by using the Index > Alerts page, shown in the following
figure.
3. Showing the My Alerts link for a specific front end by using either the Page Layout Helper or the
XSLT Stylesheet Editor on the Search > Search Features > Front Ends > Output Format page.