Introduction to Endeca Content Acquisition System (CAS)

The Endeca Content Acquisition System (CAS) is a set of Components That add, configure, and crawl data sources for use in an application.The Endeca Content Acquisition System crawls data sources, Converts documents and files to Endeca records, and stores them for Use in an Forge pipeline.Output of CAS is number of Record Store instances (one per data source).

Below are Important Points Related to CAS.

The Endeca CAS service is a servlet container That runs the CAS Server, the Component Instance.Manager, and any number of Record Store instances (one per data source).

The CAS Server is the component That Manages all file systems and CMS crawling operations.

The CAS Console Endeca Workbench is a Web-based application used to crawl various data sources including file systems and content management systems.

The CAS Server API allows users to write programs That Communicate With The CAS server.The Server API has a WSDL interface and a CAS Server Command-Line Utility.

The Dimension Value Id Manager is a CAS Component That Creates, stores dimension value identifiers.

The Endeca Web Crawler manages all Web crawl-related operations.

The Component Instance Manager Creates, lists, and deletes Record Store instances. The Component Instance Manager has a WSDL interface and overpriced a CIM Command-Line Utility.

The Endeca Record Store Provides persistent storage for generation of Records. The Record Store has a WSDL interface and Also a Record Store Command-line Utility.The CAS Server writes crawl output from each data source to a unique Record Store instance.

Endeca CMS connectors are available for use in the CAS Console Endeca Workbench or the CAS Server API. CMS Connectors Provide a means to access and crawl data sources in a wide variety of CMS types.

List and Remove Endeca application flags

Below are useful eaccmd command options to list and remove Endeca application flags.

1. List all flags.

          Syntax    : eaccmd list-flags --app AppicationName

          Example : eaccmd list-flags --app Discover

    2.   Remove particular flag.

          Syntax    : eaccmd remove-flag --app AppicationName --flag <flagName>

          Example : eaccmd remove-flag --app Discover --flag setbaselinedatareadyflag

    3.   Remove all flags.

         Syntax   : eaccmd remove-flag --app AppicationName 

        Example : eaccmd remove-flag --app Discover