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Server features |
| Real-time updates |
System can be restarted, suspended, or reconfigured from anywhere in the world. All server parameters and functions are accessible via HTML and ordinary web browser. No configuration files to edit or difficult command line sequences to remember. |
| Deleting URLs in real-time |
When you remove a URL it is updated to the collection in real-time. You can remove a single URL, or all URLs matching a specific query. Obsolete URLs are recognized and deleted, as are duplicate URLs. Adaptive spidering means more up-to-date information. |
| Add-on products available |
Autonomy Content Classification Engine (CCE) organizes content into browsable topics for easy searching. |
| Compatible with all web servers |
Autonomy Ultraseek has its own built-in web server, so it will work with whichever web server you are using. Because of this, there are no CGIs, so performance is not degraded |
| Multiple platforms |
At present, Autonomy Ultraseek is available for Sun Solaris 2.6 and above, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0/2000, HP-UX 11.0 and above, and Linux using Kernel 2.0.34 or better and glibc 2.0.7-19 or better. |
| Multiple protocols |
The spider can index across Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and Usenet (NNTP). Support for SSL (HTTPS) is available through our Security Module. |
| Security Module |
Available as an add-on option, the Autonomy Ultraseek Security Module supports single sign-on (SSO) software, SSL, and x.509 Client Certificates. |
| Ad server support |
Autonomy Ultraseek now has support for ad servers that can serve ads using specially formatted URLs. Supported ad servers include Accipiter DirectServer and NetGravity AdServer Network. |
| Automatic restart |
Autonomy Ultraseek will automatically restart if the built-in web server appears wedged. Every minute, Ultraseek checks the status of all its HTTP server threads. If it appears wedged, it automatically restarts. |
| Mirror collections |
It's easy to mirror data from one system to another. A mirror collection constructs its full text indexes by copying from another remote Autonomy Ultraseek site. So, once Ultraseek is set up for one site, it can be easily implemented on another site. |
| Merge collections |
Multiple collections can be merged to create one large collection. This allows users to access multiple data types (HTTP, NNTP, file system files) in a single collection. |
| Reports |
Extensive reporting available through Autonomy Content Classification Engine (CCE), an add-on component. Reports available with CCE include documents per topic, sorted by hierarchy and population, and topics, sorted by browse frequency |
| Quality factor |
You can allocate the importance of a selected document relative to other documents. For example, if you weighted your page, product4sale.htm heavier, then the search results would give that page a higher relevance score than other pages. |
| Passwords encrypted |
Administrative passwords are encrypted when stored in the configuration file. |
| Advanced query fields |
You can customize the advanced query form using a simple interface. Specify what should appear in the field-specifying select form entries on the advanced query form. |
| Proxy authentication |
The spider and mirror collections authenticate proxy servers using either Basic or NT Challenge / Response authentication. |
| NT Challenge / Response |
Spider collections will automatically use NT Challenge/Response (NTLM) authentication (in addition to HTTP Basic authentication) if a web server requests it. |
| Microsoft Exchange Public Folder support |
Allows you to index content that resides in Exchange Public Folders if that content has been made web-accessible. |
| Cascading Style Sheet support |
HTML in the search home page and results pages has class attributes and <DIV> tags to support customization with CSS. |
| Customizable dictionaries |
The built-in dictionaries for natural-langauge stemming can be augmented with additional entries |
| Test URL filter |
It's easy to debug elaborate URL filter specifications with the test URL filter. Get a detailed report about how the URL is processed by the URL filter. |
| Site and URL listings |
Easily see all URLs found by the spider by clicking View sites. |
| Always disallowed sites |
Easily eliminate unwanted sites from your collection with the always disallowed sites box. |
| Selected text relevance |
You can allocate the importance of selected text relative to the body text of a document. For example, let's say you designated keywords to be more important than title. In that case, when a user performs a search, the results page will list matching keywords before matching titles. |
| Log rotation |
Log files according to your needs. Autonomy Ultraseek can open new log files on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. Easy-to-use log file administrative interface provides instant access to current and archived logs. |
| Filter Lotus Domino navigation links |
You can indicate to the spider to avoid following an infinite number of dynamically generated Lotus Domino navigation links, and instead just follow enough to get to the documents. |
| Connection timeouts |
Specify connection timeout times for all client and server network connections made by Autonomy Ultraseek from a simple administrative interface. |
| Memory-mapped titles files |
Specify how much main memory to devote to memory-mapping the document title information displayed on search results pages. Memory mapping enables faster access to the title information, speeding up query processing times. |
| Default query mode |
You can specify the default query mode parameter on an initial search results page. Choose from three possibilities: start new search, search these results, or search the entire Web. |
| Default summaries setting |
You can specify the "look" of your results page to determine whether or not to display summaries by default. |
| Display number of hits |
You can change the parameter that designates how many hits the search results page will display. This is just another way the look of your results page is tailored to the needs of your organization. |
| Multi-threaded server |
Queries are submitted by a multi-threaded server. This means users get faster results, making less load for the server. |
| Does not use CGI interface |
Because Autonomy Ultraseek does not use CGIs, user performance is better, and there is less load on the server. |
| Error notification |
If the server encounters an error, it will notify administrators of the error via a customizable address list. This helps to prevent errors from being overlooked, and frees administrators from having to constantly monitor for errors. |
| Standard format for logs |
Server errors are output to syslog, giving you a format that is consistent with other management tools. |
| Configure index cache size |
Cache can be adjusted for optimum performance. Users on smaller systems can tune the system for minimum memory requirements, while users on larger systems can tune the system to deliver the highest possible performance. |
| Customize interface |
The source code is provided for much of the system, so administrators have the power and freedom to customize the look and feel of search pages. By using simple embedded Python scripts, administrators get complete control of what's displayed and where. Some customizations can be as simple as changing a few lines of code. |
| 100% JavaTM API |
The XPA Search API provides a Java Application Programmers Interface (API) to Autonomy Ultraseek and Autonomy Content Classification Engine (CCE) specific functions. Also provided are classes supporting new search functions, including combining results from multiple distributed searches, mirroring and load-balancing across several search servers, and URL access-checking. |
