Thursday, 13 November 2014

How to find FAST server names


Ans:
Open  deployment.xml file.
C:\FASTSearch\deployment.xml 
<FASTSearchFolder>\etc\, where <FASTSearchFolder> is the path of the folder where you have installed FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, for example C:\FASTSearch.
Example of deployment.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<deployment comment="FAST Search Server three node deployment example" xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch">
<instanceid>FASTSearchMultiNodeDemo</instanceid>
<!--
NOTE: Host names "fastserver1.contoso.com", "fastserver2.contoso.com" and "fastserver3.contoso.com"
must be changed to the actual server names in use
-->
<connector-databaseconnectionstring />
<host name="fastserver1.contoso.com">
<admin />
<indexing-dispatcher />
<content-distributor />
<webanalyzer server="true" link-processing="true" lookup-db="true" />
<document-processor processes="2" />
</host>
<host name="fastserver2.contoso.com">
<searchengine row="0" column="0" />
</host>
<host name="fastserver3.contoso.com">
<searchengine row="1" column="0" />
<query />
</host>
<searchcluster>
<row id="0" index="primary" search="true" />
<row id="1" index="none" search="true" />
</searchcluster>
</deployment>
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You can find server names from above file