Global search functionality in Application Security
Application Security provides global, category-based search functionality that applies search terms across application versions, issues, reports, comments, and users. Newly added documents (artifacts, application versions, users) are automatically immediately indexed.
Indexing uploaded FPR files is not immediate because it is performed as a separate Index New Issues job, which is scheduled to occur at the end of an artifact upload job.
The index maintenance job, which is performed once a day, keeps the index healthy. You can change its run time from the Administration view. OpenText recommends that you schedule this job to run once a day. For instructions on how to re-schedule executed jobs, see Configuring Job Scheduler Settings.
To enable global searching on your Application Security server, you must provide Tomcat server with read and write access to the search index directory. You can enable global searches during configuration at first sign in or after an upgrade.
Recommended disk size
The optimum disk size for the requisite indexing for global searches varies based on the characteristics of the data, but the Lucene indexes are much smaller than the data in the database. For example, the index size required for a database issue volume of 18 GB (with db indexes) is approximately 2 GB.
See Also
Configuring Application Security for the first time