Patent ID: 8458159

Claim:
A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for configuring a search topology in a networked system, the method comprising: determining available resources, including one or more of servers, applications and data sources in a networked shared services environment through a topology manager; providing a user interface for administrator selectable parameters managed by a search configuration wizard; suggesting selectable parameters to an administrator via the search configuration wizard including one or more of: available applications, servers and databases for a search topology based on internal lookup tables and logic for best configurations of components, and databases; including one or more of: one or more ranges for searchable document sizes, and numbers and types of servers and applications, associated with server roles and search limitations; including dynamically determined attributes of the one or more ranges in the selectable parameters based on characteristics of the system including at least one of: a size and a number of available documents in the system; receiving administrator selections for the parameters; and implementing the search topology based on the available resources and the administrator selections through an administration object model configured to interact with a search application programming interface for providing access to one or more of a query component primitive, a crawl component primitive, and a property store primitive for performing crawl and search operations.