Click the Search Engine component to enter the search portal.
You can
perform both simple, straightforward searches and advanced
searches. For a simple search, simply enter the search term in the 'Search
for' text box and press enter or click the 'go' link. Writing
down a single word or a list of words will cause XpoLog to
search all logs in which at least one of the words appear (OR operation). You
can also define a regular expression as a
search term. Searching a regular expression allows you to use wildcards anywhere within the search term, but it might cause
for longer search times - especially if the wildcards appear at the
beginning of the search term.
The result of a search query is a list of logs with
indexing information and log information displayed next to each log result.
By clicking on a search log result you drill down to that log's log
view, where only records containing the search term are displayed.
XpoLog creates for that view a temporary filter based on the search
term. If you wish, you can enter the filter definition, edit it and
save it.
To get a merged view of the result logs select the 'Merge results'
link in the results status line. Select the logs you want to
participate in the merged result. By clicking the 'view' link,
XpoLog will create a temporary merge log
based on the selected logs and will show it in the log view, again
with a temporary filter based on the search term. Clicking the 'save
and view' link will create and save the merge log and will then open
its log view.
Clicking on the 'advanced' link will open the advanced
search information section. If a different number results per page
is desired, override the search engine default in the 'Results
per page' entry.
If you want to search for logs where all the search terms
appear, select in the 'Find Results' section the 'with all of
the words' option. Otherwise use the 'with at least one of the
words' option.
In the 'Search in'
section, selecting 'only selected logs' will display the 'Select
indexed logs' link that
opens the logs tree. Only logs which use indexing and have been
indexed will appear in that tree. Select the logs and folders to
participate in the search. Click
on the 'Hide selected logs' to hide the logs tree.
By default XpoLog searches the search term only within its own
logs. To perform the search also on logs residing in remote
XpoLog nodes, select these nodes in the XpoLog nodes list in the
'Search on' section.
Running a search with a given search term will create a new 'user
search result' entry that will be displayed in the 'Search
Results' slide of the management pane on the left side of the
screen. This way you can return to previously
performed searches. Right click a search result and select 'Remove
search' to remove it from the search results list, or click the
small arrow in the 'Search Results' slide title and select 'Clear searches' to delete all pervious
searches.