Many times I get a question as to how granular can you make the administration of the FAST, what administrative options each level provides and what does it look like.
In the previous post I shared screenshots of administrative interfaces that are available to site collection admins. In this post I wanted to share the screenshots of Administration UI for FAST from the Central administration.
Search Administrators have the ability to control the following settings:
Here are some screenshots with explanations.
Central Administration – Content source configuration
Central Administration – Configure authoritative pages
Central Administration – Content Source overview
Central Administration – Crawl log
Central Administration – Crawled Properties (Metadata)
Central Administration – FAST Content SSA overview
Central Administration – FAST Query SSA overview
Central Administration – Managed Properties (metadata fields)
Central Administration – New Crawl rule
Central Administration – URL Blocking
Enjoy 
