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Google Search Appliance: Planning for Search Appliance Installation
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Planning for Search Appliance
Installation
This document provides the information you need to plan a Google Search Appliance installation. The
guide contains an overview and checklists of the values you must determine and decisions you must
make before you set up your network and the content files and perform the Google Search Appliance
installation process. After you complete the installation process, the search appliance can crawl and
index the content files. When the crawling and indexing processes are complete, end users can search
the content files.
For planning information for other software versions and search appliance models, see the Archive
page (
, which contains links to previous versions of
the search appliance documentation.
About This Document
The information in this document applies to the Google Search Appliance models GB-7007, GB-9009,
G100, and G500.
This document contains basic information about how the Google Search Appliance works. This
document is for you if you are a network, web site, or content management system administrator, or if
you install or configure the Google Search Appliance.
If you are installing a Google Search Appliance, you need some knowledge of networking concepts.
These concepts include IP addresses, routers, dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), and ports.
If you are configuring the software, you’ll need to know how your web site or intranet is structured and
how the content you want to index and serve is structured.
If you are configuring a search appliance and a connector to index content in a content management
system, you’ll need to know about object types and properties in the content management system and
about how the content management system’s software is configured.