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
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