KMS stands for knowledge management and search. The KMS Management module provides read-only information about the current number of indexed and pending documents in the KMS index. The KMS index enables full-text searching in the knowledge base. The KMS Management module also provides a means to rebuild the index.
You must rebuild the index periodically as part of ongoing maintenance, or else the full-text search function will not return the expected results for your users. During normal re-indexing, your users may continue to search. Until the re-indexing is complete, they will receive the same results they did before you started the rebuild.
However, if you rebuild after a disk failure or other loss or corruption, all search requests return zero results during the process is complete. Pending documents still accumulate and are included in the new index.
The Architecture Implementation Guide also contains information on KMS.
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