FoxTrot Search server

What's new in FoxTrot Search Server 2.5.3

Features

- Admin: Implemented keychain support; hence passwords can now be remember from one connection to another and are stored in the system's keychain.

- Now includes german-language localization

Bug fixes

- Admin: Fixes the occasional remaining "Can't connect to indexer" messages that remained in 2.5.2

- When updating an index, if a folder (or more typically, a volume - shared folder, external drive, or disk image) specified in the "indexed data" pane is not found (typically, because the volume is not mounted), its previous content is no longer considered as having been deleted.

- Fixed a bug that could cause the index settings to be lost when the disk is full

- A crash could sometime occur in RosettaMDIHelper, when using a PowerPC Spotlight metadata importer on an intel Mac.

- Admin: When starting an index, its status was not updated until you deselected and reselected it

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What is FoxTrot Search Server

Extending the client-server features contained in FoxTrot Professional Search, FoxTrot Search Server enables organizations to deploy faceless indexing and search services either on a file server itself or on a machine indexing files across a network.

FoxTrot Search Server can run on standard (non-server) or Server versions of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or 10.5 Leopard. Additional suitable platforms with certain limitations are Mac OS X 10.4, Windows 7, Vista and Windows XP.

In all cases, the administration of FoxTrot Search Server is performed from a Mac OS X 10.6, 10.5 or 10.4 application supplied with the server.

Although file sharing is required for preview and secondary search within documents, text-only search and retrieval is possible even without having mounted a file server volume.


Licensing Model

For an introductory period, FoxTrot Search server for Mac OS X will be included with all multi-user licences of FoxTrot Professional (10 users and above) at no additional cost.


A tip on experimenting and deploying FoxTrot Search Server

The first step in trying out FoxTrot Search Server is gaining familiarity with the abilities of FoxTrot Professional Search, then sharing an index across the network from the 30-day evaluation application.

For production-level deployment, install FoxTrot Search Server on the desired server and migrate the indices and settings within minutes.

last updated January 26th, 2010 - all software Snow Leopard compatible - ©1985-2010 CTM Development SA - all rights reserved