Overview of administrator tasks

This topic provides a brief overview of the administrator tasks described in this guide.

This guide assumes that you are performing administrator tasks on the Oracle Endeca Server. The types of task that are described in this guide are the following (as grouped by their section):

Chapter Tasks
Using the Administration Web Service Use the Administration Web Service for administrative tasks.
Job Monitoring Obtain information about the jobs that are being currently processed by the Oracle Endeca Server.
Capturing Snapshots Create snapshots of a running Oracle Endeca Server and use them as a part of your backup and archiving strategy.
Dgraph Administrative Tasks
  • Check the Dgraph process.
  • Manage Dgraph process core dump files.
  • Collect debugging information to help solve problems.
  • Troubleshoot Dgraph process socket and port errors.
  • Identify Dgraph process connection errors.
Administrative Operations and Logging Variables
  • Flush the dynamic cache.
  • Force a query log roll.
  • Merge update generations and sets the system's merge policy.
  • Check the Dgraph process Statistics page.
  • Rebuild the aspell dictionary for spelling correction.
  • Modify the logging configuration for the Dgraph process.
Managing the Merge Policy
  • Merge update generations.
  • Set and manage the merge policy for an Endeca data store.
Deploying Oracle Endeca Server in a Clustered Environment Set up and manage a cluster of Oracle Endeca Server nodes.
Using SSL Certificate Utilities
  • Generate standard and custom SSL certificate files to be used for SSL connections to the Oracle Endeca Server.
  • Convert PEM-format certificates to the standard Java KeyStore (JKS) format.
  • Configure the Oracle Endeca Server for SSL mutual authentication.