When users subscribe to alerts anywhere on the portal, the search service processes those alerts. This interdependence means that if search is not working, alerts also are not working; and in addition, the search server performance can be impacted if your portal has a lot of alert subscriptions.
There is a unique additional scenario where search and alerts are combined. Users can subscribe to search-based alerts so that they receive notifications when the results of their search query have changed. This ability can be enabled or disabled at the SSP. Search-based alerts increase the load on the search server that processes the search query each time it processes the search-based alert. If you want to enable or disable this feature, follow these steps:
1. | Navigate to the administration page for your Shared Service Provider and select Search settings from the Search section. |
2. | Select Search-based alerts. |
3. | Click Activate if you want to activate the feature. If the feature is already activated, it displays this status in the Search-based Alerts section. |
4. | Click Deactivate if you want to deactivate the feature. If the feature is already deactivated, it displays this status in the Search-based Alerts section. |
If you want to review and manage what alerts are active on your sites, follow these steps:
1. | Choose Site Settings from the Site Actions menu on the site in which you want to review alerts. |
2. | Select User alerts from the Site Administration menu. |
3. | Select a user from the Display alerts for drop-down menu and click Update. |
4. | If appropriate, select the alerts that you want to delete and click Delete Selected Alerts. |