Course Description

This 3 day hands-on course provides administrators and developers the foundation knowledge to administer and customize the Google Search Appliance. This course was developed by Google and is an integral component of the Google Enterprise Professional program. This course introduces the fundamentals of:

• Crawling and indexing documents from web servers and file systems
• Using feeds to insert other content (content management systems)
• Managing database content
• Modifying the presentation of search results
• Implementing security when serving results

Length of course: 3 days
Per Student Cost: $1,800 at a regional center, $1,400 Distance Learning

Registration: Please return to the Google Search Appliance Training page and click the registration link for the desired dates, or Contact Us for more information.

Course Outline

Day 1: Crawling and serving web content

• Understand end user experience
• Understand how the Continuous Crawler locates and indexes content
• Learn how to interpret Crawl Diagnostics
• Navigate the Administration console
• Create, manage and test Front Ends with the Page Layout Helper
• Create Key Match and Related Queries
• Implement Query Expansion
• Create and Manage Collections

Day 2: Onebox Modules, Indexing with feeds

• Understand how Onebox Modules integrates with enterprise applications
• Understand the difference between internal and external Onebox modules
• Modify the XSLT stylesheet for Onebox results
• Integrate a Onebox Module within a Front End
• Understand how Feeds integrate with content management systems
• Create and submit different types of feeds: Web, Metadata and Content
• Index database content including blob data

Day 3: Reporting, Security, Modifying XSLT stylesheet

• Understand how Crawl and Serve Security functions
• Implement Directory Service (LDAP) integration
• Understand and implement Forms Authentication Security
• Run reports including Crawl Queue and Search Reports
• Understand query request parameters
• Understand the XML response object
• Use the Version Manager to upgrade the Google Search Appliance
• Learn where all Google Search Appliance documentation is located

Course Prerequisites
To get the most out of the course students should be familiar with the following:

• HTML and XML
• Web Servers
• Databases
• Search concepts