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Hidden Features in the Google Search Appliance 6.0 Part 4

September 21st, 2009

DNS Override

Often during our implementations we find that DNS is not set up properly for the DMZ or other vlan.  In these cases, it would be great if you could specify a hosts file on the appliance.  In version 6.0 of the appliance, you can.

The administration override for DNS can be found here:

http://yourappliance:8000/EnterpriseController?actionType=dns

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Hidden Features in the Google Search Appliance 6.0 release – Part 2

September 9th, 2009

LDAP Server Authentication

Prior to version 6.0, you could perform security trimming via LDAP authentication.  But you always had to maintain a custom list of user accounts.  Now with the release of 6.0.  You can use LDAP groups to list Administrators and Managers.

When enabled, you have to additional boxes to list a LDAP group for both the manager and administrator roles (see below).

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Basic information regarding the set up can be found here.