Crawling and searching secured portal sites may require
some additional configuration.
For search on secured portal sites Portal Search provides
a pre-configured default setup. For more information about this refer
to Configuring a crawler to search your local portal site. You can use that setup
as is, or you can modify it as required. You can also set up your
own search collection for search on portal sites. The following sections
describe all of these options.
Security notes: - You can crawl, index, and search secured portal pages only on
your local portal installation. For security reasons, you cannot crawl
secured pages of one portal site from another portal site.
- When you create a content source for enabling search on a secured
portal site, you need to enter sensitive data, such as a user ID and
password for the crawler. This sensitive data is stored on the portal
server hard drive in plain text unless you choose to encrypt it. To
ensure encryption of this sensitive data when it is stored, update
and run the file searchsecret.xml using
the XML configuration interface before enabling search on the
secured portal site. For details about how to do this, refer to Encrypting sensitive data.
- When users search a secured portal, the resulting portal pages
or resources are filtered based on Portal Access Control. This way
Portal Search filters the results according to the access permissions
of that user who is searching. This applies to the following resources:
portal pages, portlets, and Web Content Manager content. Portal
Search does not provide security filtering for other HTTP accessible
information, such as secured Web sites. The portal cannot filter the
resulting documents by portal security for these types of content
source.