Basically Consultant work kind of implementation oriented, It is been long time I get into the operational related stuffs, But its good to get into the operational related troubleshooting time to time. Its much useful to understand the technical things working in the back end. Through this blog I would like to share what are our learning from the Full Text Search implementations for Solar01 documents, Our Solution Manager release is SM 7.1 SP7, but I could assure that this blog would be applicable for all release levels of solution manager.
Last Monday I got request from business to implement Full Text Search for Solar01, Full Text search is the feature of TREX, which helps to search the documents based on words or phrases. Full text search in solution manager can check by solar01 -> Business Blue print menu -> Find Document -> Extend Attribute Selection -> Full Text Search.
You can give any words in the search term column, system tried to give the list of documents accordingly. Before implementation you could only get "No documents found".
I knew that Trex installation is the prerequisite for full text search and have done lots of trex installation, so there wont be any problem in Installation of Trex, We have already running Trex in one of the host. Connected our solman by creating RFC destination. ( I would like to one small hint here RFC destination should be created by the admin user who has the role SAP_BC_TREX_ADMIN), Trex admin tool creates the Trex RFC with the registered program of naming convention TREX_SID_XXXXX.
But the requirement is the full text search in solar01, so started to search the document for all the sources. We got below guide, which is good and pretty clear, Integration of Trex with Solution Manager for Full Text Search. We followed all the steps, But output is negative. Not able to get the result from full text search.
Later we got the below Note 750623 - Solution Manager: Full text search in KW documentation. As per the note we need to follow all the steps in the below spro path SAP Solution Manager -> Technical Settings -> Document Management -> Servers -> Connect Index server for full Text search
This is entirely different from the above guide, The guide mentioned to create RFC from Trex admin tool, later use that RFC for indexing, which we tried, but couldn't help.
Hence we followed the SAP Note. Manually created two RFCs as IMSDEFAULT and IMSDEFAULT_REG with different program names (ims_server_admin.exe.rfc_sapretrieval), But connection test of both the RFC failed, Though index server and Trex connectivity already working perfectly in OS level.
In SCN there are lots of discussion related to these two RFCs but all of them closed as unanswered. (https://scn.sap.com/thread/1973485, http://scn.sap.com/message/14238836) even not sure from where these ims_server_admin.exe.rfc_sapretrieval coming. We left with no help and bit confused.
We checked all the way that trex server side is everything perfect. So we decided to check the logic behind Full text search, Below are the steps we followed to fix this known issues on full text search.
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