Koha's Zebra related components

Before we install and test Zebra with Koha, let us understand a couple of key Zebra related components that we will use frequently as Koha administrators.

Zebrasrv—the Zebra query and retrieval server

This is a Zebra component that is responsible for serving results to search requests coming from Koha's OPAC or staff client. Here are some key points to note about zebrasrv:

  • For search to function, the zebrasrv process must be running on the Koha server
  • The process can be started by using the zebrasrv command from the Linux shell
  • zebrasrv is usually run in the background as a service or a daemon
  • To make zebrasrv work with our Koha installation, we will need to invoke the process by pointing it to use Koha's configuration ...

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