ATG search and Monitoring the request and response

To get an idea of the SearchEngineActivity logs, please read the blog : http://tips4ufromsony.blogspot.com/2012/01/atg-search-and-search-engine-activity.html

Other than using the SearchEngineActivity logs, we could monitor the search engine request/reponse by enabling the monitoring in the SearchEngineService component @ /dyn/admin/nucleus/atg/search/routing/SearchEngineService.

Once you enable this "monitoringEnabled", each request/response and the response time like last response time and average response time can be found @ SearchEngineService component. After you send a request to the search engine, just refresh the SearchEngineService component and you could see that the total command count will be incremented by one and the response time also get updated.

If you click this total command count, a new window will be opened with the request and response details.

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