[ipac] HIP search server not working?

[Brian Dunten]

Are you running your test HIP instance against a test database with a
different name and/or server than the one in productino?

If that is the case, you probably need to change the Horizon data source
information in the test instance's admin database.  

You will need to have access to Interbase's Ibconsole.  If I recall
correctly, if your HIP instance is on Windows you should have a copy
already installed on that server.  Unix/Linux users may have to install
it on a Windows machine.

You can set up a connection to your test admin database in Ibconsole,
then log in and view the tables.  The two tables that need to be updated
are "SOURCE" and "SOURCE_HORIZON".

You should shut down all of the HIP-related processes other than
Ibserver before making these changes.

For "SOURCE", go to the data tab and find the name of your production
Horizon database enclosed by <maindb></maindb> tags.  Change it to the
test database name, then click "Commit & Refresh".

For the "SOURCE_HORIZON" table, go to the data tab and change the
"SOURCE_NAME" column to the name of your test databse.  Again, click
"Commit & Refresh" to save the change.

When you restart the HIP processes, it should be able to connect to the
test database correctly.

Brian Dunten
Web Developer
Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library
http://www.imcpl.org


-----Original Message-----
From: ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org [mailto:ipac-bounces at lists.tblc.org]
On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 9:23 AM
To: Dynix's Horizon Information Portal,formerly iPac (discussion)
Subject: [ipac] HIP search server not working?


Thanks for the advice on querrying Sybase vs. querrying the HIP indexes.

But now I have another problem, I'm afraid. We run a test/development 
instance of HIP, which I've messed up somehow. Apparently our SD 
contract doesn't cover any support for a test instance, so you guys are 
my only hope.

At first, I couldn't get any HIP or HIP admin pages to display at all, I

just got an XSL error message. Apparently I corrupted the .gdb database 
somehow. SD did suggest this to me, before closing my issue and telling 
me I wasn't paying for support for a test instance.

So I made a transportable backup of my production HIP .gdb, and restored

that to my test instance. This did get me a step ahead, now I can access

HIP admin and do get pages returned. However, all of the search boxes 
are missing from my HIP pages. This is behavior I associate with not 
having a search server running, but my search server IS running (I 
started it, I can see the process in the 'ps').

Anyone have any idea what might be going on? Could there be some setting

in the .gdb I copied from production to test, that I need to change for 
some reason in test?

Like I say, you guys are my only hope at this point.

Jonathan
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