Activating Solr

This section describes how to activate the Solr search mechanism in a manual SkyVault installation or an upgrade from a previous version.

Global properties file

Set the following properties:

Property	Description
`index.subsystem.name`	The subsystem type value. The `index.subsystem.name` property values are either `solr` or `lucene`.
`solr.host`	The host name where the Solr instance is located.
`solr.port`	The port number on which the Solr instance is running.
`solr.port.ssl`	The port number on which the Solr SSL support is running.

For example, some example properties for activating Solr are:

index.subsystem.name=solr
solr.host=localhost
solr.port=8080
solr.port.ssl=8443

Edit the following properties:

Property	Description
`index.subsystem.name`	Select the subsystem type value as either `solr` or `lucene`.
`solr.host`	The host name where the Solr instance is located.
`solr.port`	The port number on which the Solr instance is running.
`solr.port.ssl`	The port number on which the Solr SSL support is running.

To switch between Lucene and Solr in JMX, choose MBeans > SkyVault > Configuration > Search.
Set the manager sourceBeanName to either solr or lucene.
The subsystems have their own related properties. The managed - solr instance exposes the solr.base.url property. The lucene subsystem exposes all the properties that had to be set at start up.
These can now be configured live and the subsystem redeployed.