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Comment: Clarify spider domain and agent matching a bit

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Spiders may also be excluded by DNS name or Agent header value.  Place one or more files of patterns in the directories [dspace]/config/spiders/domains and/or [dspace]/config/spiders/agents.  Each line in a pattern file should be either empty, a comment starting with "#" in column 1, or a regular expression which matches some names to be recognized as spiders.

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Technical implementation details

After sharding, the SOLR data cores are located in the [dspace.dir]/solr directory. There is no need to define the location of each individual core in solr.xml because they are automatically retrieved at runtime. This retrieval happens in the static method located in theorg.dspace.statistics.SolrLogger class. These cores are stored in the statisticYearCores list each time a query is made to the solr these cores are added as shards by the addAdditionalSolrYearCores method. The cores share a common configuration copied from your original statistics core. Therefore, no issues should be resulting from subsequent ant updates.

The actual sharding of the of the original solr core into individual cores by year is done in the shardSolrIndex method in the org.dspace.statistics.SolrLogger class. The sharding is done by first running a facet on the time to get the facets split by year. Once we have our years from our logs we query the main solr data server for all information on each year & download these as csv's. When we have all data for one year we upload it to the newly created core of that year by using the update csvhandler. One all data of one year has been uploaded that data is removed from the main solr (by doing it this way if our solr crashes we do not need to start from scratch).