Training Video:Search Troubleshooting

Introduction

A walkthrough of some common issues with search in EPrints, including checking and starting the indexer, and reindexing the repository.

What You Will Learn

• How to identify search errors
• How to troubleshoot simple issues as an administrator
• How to investigate and resolve more complex issues as a system administrator

What You Should Already Know

To identify errors, check status and start the indexer (basic)

• Familiarity with EPrints Admin interface

To resolve other search issues (advanced)

• Familiarity with command line interface for EPrints tools
• Familiarity with MySQL

Resources

Video

The Video can be found at http://youtu.be/iIRB7HeSHek.

Index

• 00:14 Identifying problems in searches
• 00:46 Comparing number of items in browse with number returned in search
• 00:57 Checking the search indexer
• 01:10 Indexer Status screen - list of pending tasks
• 02:02 Starting the indexer
• 02:38 Checking for items not showing even after indexer has run
• 03:11 Reindexing an item
• 03:17 Finding the /bin directory
• 03:55 Finding the epadmin command
• 04:06 Operations available to the epadmin command
• 04:26 Accessing detailed help for a command
• 04:53 Reindexing the whole repository
• 06:10 Investigating in the database
• 07:06 Showing index tables
• 07:39 Viewing index for specific eprint
• 09:06 Normalised values

Notes, Errata and Additional Information

• EPrints 3.3.14
• Ubuntu 15.04