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Platform Deployment Guide › Content Services › Installing the Content Indexer and Proxy Server › Manually Specify the Content Indexer Host Server

Manually Specify the Content Indexer Host Server

If the content indexer is installed on a different server to the content database, you must manually configure the content database to identify the content indexer host server.

Follow these steps:

  1. On the content database host server, stop the CA Data Protection Content Database service.
  2. Edit the content.cfg file.

    Find this file on the server hosting the content database. The file is in the \Content\IDOL folder below the CA Data Protection installation folder.

  3. In the [IndexNotify] section, change the Host value 'localhost' to the name or IP address of the content indexer host server.
  4. Save the changes to content.cfg file.
  5. Restart the CA Data Protection Content Database service.