FAST ESP 5.3 - change the index location

Steps to move the FAST ESP v5.3 index to another drive or path. This was tested with the FSIA version of FAST but should be applicable to other implementations.

Note that AFAIK the drive and path must be consistent between all index/search nodes (due to rtssearchrc) and data_fixml and data_index still have to be on the same drive (which is a shame).

A. Stop all indexer and search processes on all nodes.

B. On Admin node, edit the webcluster file:

1. \esp\etc\config_data\RTSearch\webcluster\rtsearchrc.xml

Change the $RTROOT variable to a hard coded path in

•     fixmlPath="E:\esp\data\data_fixml"
•     indexDir="E:\esp\data\data_index"

C. On EACH of the index and or search nodes update the following two files:

2. \esp\etc\searchrc-1.xml

• indexpath= "E:\esp\data\data_index"

3. \esp\etc\rtsplatformrc.xml

• indexDir = "E:\esp\data\data_index"
• fixmlDir = "E:\esp\data\data_fixml"

D. Restart indexer and search processes.