Using federated search

Running federated searches varies, based on whether the federated provider is running in standard or transparent mode. Federated searches that run over transparent mode do not require any new syntax. These federated searches are run using the same syntax as regular local searches. However, federated searches executed on standard mode federated providers require additional syntax. If this syntax is not used, the search will be executed on the indexers in the local deployment only. Before we can run a federated search in standard mode, we must ensure that a user with the admin role creates federated indexes on the federated search head in the local deployment. Remember that this is a logical index and does not actually ingest data. In addition, you need to ensure that the knowledge objects in your search, such as lookups, are present both on the local search head and the federated search head on the remote deployment. The following examples show how to run federated...