beadmin.exe reference
Applies to: FAST Search Server 2010
Use the beadmin tool to control and monitor the browser engine. Typical tasks include viewing processing statistics from the browser engine, and processing individual URIs.
Note
To use a command-line tool, verify that you meet the following minimum requirements: You are a member of the FASTSearchAdministrators local group on the computer where FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint is installed.
Syntax
<FASTSearchFolder>\bin\beadmin.exe [options]
Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
<FASTSearchFolder> |
The path of the folder where you have installed FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint, for example C:\FASTSearch. |
beadmin options
| Option (and short name) | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
--help (-h) |
Displays help information. |
|
--version (-v) |
Displays version information. |
|
--browserengine |
<host:port> |
Specifies the host name and port of the browser engine to use. Can be used with:
Default: Queries the Microsoft FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint name service for the browser engine. |
--loglevel (-l) |
off|all|critical|error|warning|info|verbose |
Specifies the log level threshold to use. Default: info |
--outfile (-o) |
<path> |
When using --uri or --urifile, writes the HTML body to the specified file instead of displaying it in the command line output. |
--status (-a) |
Displays the status of the browser engine. The output lists the currently processing URIs. |
|
--statistics (-s) |
Displays the processing statistics from the browser engine. |
|
--uri (-u) |
<uri> |
Specifies a URI to be processed by the browser engine, and displays the HTTP cookies and hyperlinks found. If log level is set to verbose the item’s HTML body is also displayed. |
--urifile (-f) |
<path> |
Same as --uri, but specifies that the browser engine process all the URIs listed in the specified text file. Use for debugging only. |
Examples
This example processes a URI:
<FASTSearchFolder>\bin\beadmin.exe -u https://www.contoso.com/
The following example processes a URI and displays the HTML body:
<FASTSearchFolder>\bin\beadmin.exe -u https://www.contoso.com/ -l verbose
To display browser engine statistics, follow this example:
<FASTSearchFolder>\bin\beadmin.exe --statistics
The following example displays browser engine status:
<FASTSearchFolder>\bin\beadmin.exe --status