User Guide

116 Chapter 6 Configuring Verity K2 Server
Overview
ColdFusion Server 5 includes an OEM restricted version of the Verity K2 Server,
which incorporates a highly scalable search server architecture. K2 supports
simultaneous indexing of distributed enterprise repositories and handles hundreds
of concurrent queries and users. You will see considerable performance
improvements when using K2 Server to search Verity collections.
The version of K2 Server that is part of ColdFusion 5 is restricted in the following
areas:
• For ColdFusion Professional, K2 Server can search a maximum of 125,000
documents.
• For ColdFusion Enterprise, K2 Server can search a maximum of 250,000
documents.
Verity operates in two modes
With the introduction of the high-performance K2 Server engine in ColdFusion,
there are now two modes of operation for Verity searching:
• VDK mode The conventional Verity search mode. Use the ColdFusion
Administrator Verity Collections page to configure Verity VDK collections.
• K2 mode The high-performance K2 mode. Edit the
k2server.ini file to specify
unique collections for searching with K2 Server, and edit the ColdFusion
Administrator Verity Server page to configure ColdFusion to use the K2 Server.
ColdFusion uses K2 mode to search collections if the following conditions are met:
1 The K2 Server is running. See “Starting K2 Server” on page 120 for more details.
2 The collection name you specify in the
cfsearch tag has been specified in the
k2server.ini file and is unique, that is, the collection name is not used in any
Verity collections that are configured for use by ColdFusion. Check the
ColdFusion Administrator Verity Collections page for possible name conflicts.
Quick start to K2 Server
To get K2 Server up and running on your system quickly, follow these steps:
1 Edit the
k2server.ini file to specify the unique collection names you want to
expose to the K2 Server. See “Editing the k2server.ini File” on page 124 for details.
2 Start K2 Server by running the k2server executable. See “Starting K2 Server” on
page 120 for details.
3 Enter the hostname and port number for the server where the K2 server is
running. See “Specifying K2 Server parameters in the ColdFusion Adminstrator”
on page 117 for details about the Administrator.