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 tasks described in this guide are the following (as grouped by their section):

Chapter Tasks
Endeca Server Administrative Tasks
  • Start the Endeca Server application running in the WebLogic Server.
  • Stop the Endeca Server application running in the WebLogic Server.
  • Use endeca-cmd to:
    • Create, manage, and monitor the status of the Endeca data domains.
    • Manage and monitor the status of the Endeca Server nodes (if you are running more than one Endeca Server instance, such as in a cluster).
    • Create and manage data domain profiles and the Endeca Server node profile.
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 set the system's merge policy.
  • Check the Dgraph process Statistics page.
  • Modify the logging configuration for the Dgraph process.
Managing the Merge Policy
  • Merge Dgraph index update generations.
  • Set and manage the merge policy for an Endeca data domain.