Current Activity

Use Current Activity to monitor and refresh the status of the current indexing activity.

Full-text indexing operations can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. Search Server lets you monitor the progress of the indexing operations that are currently being executed. 

The indexing process happens in two stages. In the first stage, Search Server extracts significant words from shadow copies and log records and saves them to temporary indexes for each specified DeviceLock Enterprise Server. For each temporary index, Search Server processes 1,000 records from each log. 

In the second stage, when either the number of temporary indexes becomes equal to 50 or 10 minutes pass, all temporary indexes are combined into a permanent master index that is used for search queries. The process of combining temporary indexes into a master index is called merging.

Search Server provides indexing and merging-related progress and status indicators. When you select Current Activity in the console tree, indexing and merging-related progress and status indicators are displayed in the details pane.

Indexing progress and status indicators

You can control the indexing process on each specified DeviceLock Enterprise Server by watching its status and progress counter. The status indicator shows the status of the indexing operation. Possible status values are: 

• Idle Indexing is not performed

• Waiting Waiting for indexing to begin

• Indexing <log_name> Indexing is in progress

The progress counter shows the percentage complete of the indexing process.

Merging-related progress and status indicators

You can control the merge process by watching its status and progress counter. The status indicator shows the status of the merge operation. Possible status values are:

• Idle The merge is not performed

• Merging The merge is in process

• Defragmenting Compressing (optimizing) the index. Compressing the index optimizes the index structure, removing obsolete data and defragmenting search structures for better performance.

The progress counter shows the percentage complete of the merge process.

Because the status of the current indexing and merging-related operations is not updated automatically, you need to perform a refresh operation.

To refresh the status of the current indexing activity

• In the console tree, right-click Current Activity, and then click Refresh.

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• In the console tree, select Current Activity, and then click Refresh on the toolbar.

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• In the console tree, select Current Activity. In the details pane, in the Name column, right-click any name of DeviceLock Enterprise Server or Merge Index, and then click Refresh.

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• In the console tree, select Current Activity. In the details pane, select the name of any DeviceLock Enterprise Server or Merge Index, and then click Refresh on the toolbar.

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