Installing FACT-Finder
This section explains how to install FACT-Finder on your server. This instruction is based on the Debian 8 64bit (Jessie) OS, uses Apache Tomcat 8 as application server and FACT-Finder version 7.3.
It is possible to run FACT-Finder on other platforms, like windows. Please accept our apologies for not supplying an installation instruction for every available OS and application server. For any questions regarding operating systems, we are happy to advise and help you on an individual basis.
This section does not include backup or fallback strategies.
General Information for using FACT-Finder
The FACT-FInder Framework consists of three Java web applications. These apps are supplied by Omikron and have distinct tasks:
- a search application (
fact-finder.war), which contains business logic and processes search queries. - an analytics application (
analytics.war), which processes search logs and hands over search behaviour information to the search application and the user interface. This analytics data are relevant to some search app imports (e.g. ASO, Suggest) and are essential to others (e.g. Recommendation Engine). - a management Interface (
fff-ui.war), which allows you to configure the search application and review anayitcs results.
You should have received a licence key file from Omikron. THis is necessary for using FACT-Finder.
All applications store theri data (e.g. configuration) in their own folders. These folders can be found in a resource folder, the path of which is defined by an environment variable.