Knowledge Discovery 26.1
Knowledge Discovery Expert

# Configuration

This section describes some of the more advanced Knowledge Discovery configuration topics.

The following topics discuss general configuration and set up information:

- Configuration Validation. Check your configuration file for configuration errors and potential problems.

- Permanent Configuration Settings. Provides details of configuration parameters that you must set up before you index data.

- XSLT in Knowledge Discovery. Configure XSLT for use in Knowledge Discovery components.

- Licenses. A description of the Knowledge Discovery licensing.

  - Troubleshoot License Issues. Information about common licensing issues.

- Size and Scale Content. Information about how to size and scale your Knowledge Discovery installation.

  - Scale Knowledge Discovery: Distributed Architecture. Information about distribution methods when scaling Knowledge Discovery installations.

  - Size Knowledge Discovery. Guidelines about sizing a distributed Knowledge Discovery architecture.

  - Scale Agentstore and Utility Content components. Information about scaling the secondary Knowledge Discovery components.

  - Expand Knowledge Discovery Installations. Information about expanding a Knowledge Discovery installation from a basic set up.

  - Use Knowledge Discovery with Virtual Machines. Guidelines for sizing Knowledge Discovery when using virtual machines.

The following topics relate to configuring Knowledge Discovery for your content:

- Fields. Configuration for fields:

  - Field Properties. A description of the different field properties available, and the type of content they might apply to.

  - Standard Connector Fields. A description of the standard fields that your connectors create.

  - CantHaveFieldCSVs. Define fields that you do not want to store in your index.

- Languages. Configuration for language processing.

  - Tokenization. Define how the Content component splits your text up into units for processing.

    - Determine the Tokens to Index. Customize storage for extremely common, numeric, and alphanumeric terms.

      - Numeric and Alphanumeric Terms. Provides more detail on configurations to deal with numeric and alphanumeric terms.

    - Linguistic Adjustments A description of the linguistic processing that the Content component performs.

    - Advanced Tokenization. A description of more advanced methods to process languages.

  - Stemming. Create a common word stem for related words so that plurals and different verb forms all match the same search.

  - Stop Lists. Create a list of words that occur too frequently to add meaning.

  - Cross-Lingual Search. Customize your configuration to enable searching across multiple languages.

    - Example Cross-Lingual Search Configuration File.

  - Automatic Language Detection. Automatically detect the language and encoding of a document.

  - Order of Language Processes. Describes the order that language processing occurs at index and query time.

  - Reference topics with lists of available files:

    - Stemming Languages

    - Supported Languages

    - Available Encodings

    - Standard Stop Lists

    - Automatic Language Detection Languages
    - Unicode Script Ranges
    - Transliteration Tables

- Security. Configuration for security settings.

  - Document Security. Configure Knowledge Discovery to respect access restrictions for your documents.

  - User Security. Configure user authentication and user permissions.

    - User Passwords. Configure settings for user passwords, password expiration, and user locking.

  - Secure Communications. Configure Transport Layer Security.

    - SSL in Knowledge Discovery. Configure Knowledge Discovery with SSL.

  - Encryption in Knowledge Discovery. Details of the encryption methods used in Knowledge Discovery.

  - Configure Security Across Components. Configure security across connectors, Content, Community, and OmniGroupServer.

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Product: Knowledge Discovery 26.1

Topic Title: Configuration