Google Search Appliance Configuring Distributed Crawling and Serving version 7.2 - Manual (Page 10)

Google Search Appliance: Configuring Distributed Crawling and Serving 10
5. Click Add. A form appears on which you enter information about the new node.
6. On the drop-down list, choose Secondary.
7. Type in the node’s GSA Appliance ID.
8. Type in the Appliance hostname or the IP address of the search appliance.
9. Type in the Admin username for the search appliance
10. Type in the Password for the Admin username.
11. Type in the Network IP of the search appliance.
12. Type in the Secret token of this search appliance.
13. If Admin NIC is enabled on the node, click Admin NIC enabled on remote node? and type the IP
address of the node in IP Address.
14. Click Save.
15. Click the GSA
n
Configuration link.
16. Click Apply Configuration. This broadcasts the configuration data to all appliances in the GSA
n
network. Note that document serving will be interrupted briefly on the master node after you click
Apply Configuration.
17. Optionally, click Export and save the distributed crawling configuration file to your local computer.
18. On the admin master node, click Content Sources > Diagnostics > Crawl Status > Resume Crawl.
Adding a Shard to an Existing Configuration
Use these instructions to add a shard to an existing distributed crawling and serving configuration.
To add a shard:
1. Log in to the Admin Console of the master search appliance.
2. If the crawl is currently running or if the search appliance already has an index from which it is
serving, click Content Sources > Diagnostics > Crawl Status > Pause Crawl.
3. Click GSA n > Configuration.
4. Click the Add Shard link and click on the View/Edit link corresponding to the newly added shard.
5. Click Add. A form appears on which you enter information about the new node.
6. On the drop-down list, choose Secondary.
7. Type in the node’s GSA Appliance ID.
8. Type in the Appliance hostname or the IP address of the search appliance.
9. Type in the Admin username for the search appliance.
10. Type in the Password for the Admin username.
11. Type in the Network IP of the search appliance.
12. Type in the Secret token of this search appliance.