Goodbye IDOL, Hello Elasticsearch

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Yay!  As of 9.2, IDOL is no longer the default content index engine.  This is cool on many levels.  In its' place the developers have introduced Elasticsearch.  Time to dive in....

First I installed the Java Runtime Environment on the server...

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Then I installed ElasticSearch....

 
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To test that it's working I use powershell as described in the documentation...

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Now over in the Enterprise Studio I can create a new content index.  Since it defaults to the current machine I should not need to change any settings.

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Next I need to enable the content indexing event....

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I dropped in all of the documentation from the source ISO and watched it process them almost immediately..

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I went back to the client and searched for a keyword and did receive results.  

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ElasticSearch is very cool!  Hopefully I'll get some time to post more about it.  I'm happy IDOL is gone in 9.2.