In order to prevent a user's search requests from consuming too many resources and consequently impairing the server's performance, search limits are imposed on these requests for any given server. The administrator sets these search limits on the size and duration of searches when configuring the server.
Only the administrator and members of the administrative group are exempted from these search limits, which apply to all other users. However, depending on needs, an administrator can create search limit groups that can have more flexible search limits than the general user. In this way, the administrator can give special search privileges to a group of users.
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The Web administration tool is used to manage search limit groups.
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