Endeca, Verity, Autonomy and Fast are a few other companies that have good search products. Yes, you should definitely consider an off the shelf package that takes security into consideration.
Endeca is interesting in that it not only does keyword search, but it also does category navigation so if you don't have the exact thing that you are searching for you can still find things pretty quick.
Derek
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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Wilbur Castro Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:34 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Netapp Searches ?
Have you considered using something like Kazeon (www.kazeon.com) or google search appliance ? These appliances can crawl your filers and index file attributes (and content) and are security aware. You could also use them for ILM type applications...
Wilbur
John said: We've got about a half terabyte of data on our F740 in our main office. The folks over in our remote office also access this via a T1. The remote guys would like to be able to do quicker searches through much of this data, probably just by filename.
Is there a native NetApp search tool? Any other recommendations?
One of the engineers has asked I just do a cron job every night of a complete file listing into a file... but I think this is something that might not even run overnight, we've got so many files.
thanks
johnS