Starting the Endeca CAS Service from a command prompt

In UNIX environments, you start the Endeca CAS Service from a command prompt. In Windows enviroments, you can start the service from a command prompt, but it is optional.

The only prerequisite to this task is that the CAS software must be installed. This means that the cas-service.bat (for Windows) or cas-service.sh (for UNIX) scripts must be available. Note that for the UNIX cas-service.sh script, you must have Execute rights to the file.

Note: The CAS Service can be slow to startup if it contains large Record Store instances and has not been cleanly shutdown.

To start the Endeca CAS Service from a command prompt:

  1. Open a command prompt and navigate to the bin directory. In a default installation on Windows, this is C:\Endeca\CAS\version\bin.
  2. Run the cas-service.bat script (for Windows) or cas-service.sh script (for UNIX). For example, in a default installation on a Windows machine, the command is as follows: 
    C:\Endeca\CAS\3.0.2\bin>cas-service
    This command starts the CAS Service on the default port 8500 with a workspace directory of Endeca\CAS\workspace. Note that you do not see any startup messages. All messages are sent to the CAS Service log (by default, workspace\logs\cas-service.log). However, if there is an error in setting up logging, all messages are sent to the console.
  3. Verify that the server is running by opening a Web browser and entering a URL with the CAS Service host and port number followed by cas/?wsdl. For example, in a default installation: 
    http://localhost:8500/cas/?wsdl
    You see the CasCrawlerService WSDL in the Web browser window, which indicates that the Endeca CAS Service is running.
The workspace directory has these sub-directories:
  • state contains a crawlerDb subdirectory that stores a unified crawl history (that is, one crawl history for all crawls defined for this CAS Server) and contains an output directory which is the default location for the crawl output files.
  • logs contains the cas-service.log log file for the CAS Service.