View the content index location for an index server (Office SharePoint Server 2007)

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Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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As an index server crawls content, it creates or updates a content index. The content index stores text from crawled documents and grows as the index server crawls content.

When you deploy an index server, you establish the location of the content index that is associated with that server. After you deploy the index server, you can change the location of its content index according to your needs. This article explains how to view the content index location for an index server that you specify. You might want to check this location in situations such as the following:

  • You want to determine if the content index location has enough disk space to accommodate the content index as it grows.

  • An administrator changed the content index location after the index server was deployed. In such a case, the old content index is not automatically deleted, but remains in its previous location. To remove the old content index, you must delete it manually from its previous location. For more information, see Change the content index location for an index server (Office SharePoint Server 2007).

In this article:

  • How to view the original location of a content index

    This is the location that you established for the content index when you assigned the associated index server to a particular shared services provider (SSP).

  • How to view the current location of the content index

    The current location of the content index is the same as the original location if an administrator has not moved the content index since installation.

Note

To complete the following procedures, you must be a shared services administrator and a member of the Administrators group on the local computer.

To view the original location of a content index

Use this procedure to view the original location of the content index for a particular index server.

View the original location of a content index

  1. In Central Administration, on the Operations tab, in the Topology and Services section, click Services on server.

  2. On the Services on Server page:

    1. If the server name that appears is not the appropriate index server, click the arrow next to the server name, click Change Server, and then click the index server.

    2. In the Start services in the table below section, click Office SharePoint Server Search.

  3. On the Configure Office SharePoint Server Search Service Settings page, in the Index Server Default File Location section, you can view the original content index location.

  4. To return to the Services on Server page, click OK.

To view the current location of the content index

Use this procedure to view the current location of the content index for a particular index server.

View the current location of the content index on the index server

  1. In Central Administration, in the Quick Launch, click Shared Services Administration.

  2. On the Manage this Farm’s Shared Services page, point to the appropriate SSP, click the arrow, and then click Edit Properties.

  3. In the Index Server section, in the Path for index file location box, you can view the current content index location.

  4. To return to the Manage this Farm’s Shared Services page, click OK.