Two COM classes provide developers with access to a comprehensive set of collections, properties, and methods to fully administer a Search system, except for programming end-user search requests. Use the SearchAdmin class to define, manage definitions, build catalogs from the catalog definitions and propagate them to the Search hosts in the system. Use the CGatherNotify class to notify Search that content has changed and should be re-indexed.
The SearchAdmin class contains two sets of interfaces serving the core functions of a Search system:
The BuildServer property obtains a Catalog Build Server object from which a collection of catalog definitions can be obtained, using the IBuildServer, IBuildCatalogs and IBuildCatalog interfaces.
The SearchServer property obtains the Search Server object from which a collection of catalogs can be obtained, using the ISearchServer, ISearchCatalogs and ISearchCatalog interfaces.
The GatherNotify class supplies methods for notifying Search when the documents of a catalog have changed and should be re-indexed.
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