The developers probably "threw in the kitchen sink" and over indexed - as that was easier than to "curate" the fields that actually needed it.
My guess is removing those fields will have no impact on your ability to search for what you want. -John On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Jamie <[email protected]> wrote: > We are currently working with BMC on upgrading our Remedy environment from > 7.5 to 7.6.04 by using their upgrade method and utilizing DDM. Before this > version, we had never utilized FTS, but we have just kicked off hte > re-index processs for our production envrionment and it has been running > for over 66hrs right now, and stil has 24 more forms to go through. > HPD:Help Desk alone has been running for 14+ hours and has still not > completed; it has 648942 rows of data. > > We are pretty close to being straight out of the box, and BMC is > recommending we remove some fields and forms from FTS indexing as they are > saying it will reduce the index time and that these fields/forms will not > benefit form being indexed. Apparently, they have done some internal > review and at some point will be removing a bunch of fields/forms from FTS > in future release (beyond 8.0). BMC is saying that removing these > fields/forms from FTS will not impact applicaiton functionality and > performance, however I have some concerns with excluding them if they were > intially put for FTS as OOB fields. > > Has anyone else ran into this issue where kicking off FTS for the first > time on an upgrade and taking this long? We have ARS, ITSM, RKM, SRM, SLM, > IBRSD, CMDB all installed as well. > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > -- *John Sundberg* Kinetic Data, Inc. "Your Business. Your Process." *Save The Date! *Second Annual KEG (Kinetic Enthusiasts Group) Feb. 25th - March 1st in Denver, CO. For more information click here - KEG<http://www.kineticdata.com/Events/KEG.html> 651-556-0930 I [email protected] www.kineticdata.com I community.kineticdata.com _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
