About sending requests directly to the Endeca JCD

You can connect to the Endeca JCD to check the status of running server processes, and to occasionally control these processes at a low level (for example, to stop a running server process). You communicate with the JCD via a browser-based interface, either by accessing the JCD home page or issuing commands as URL parameters.

If you have set the Endeca JCD to use HTTPS mode with authentication (in the jcd.conf file, ssl=true and sslcertfile and sslcafile are specified), you must import the SSL certificates into Internet Explorer in order to communicate with the JCD. Importing certificates is an optional step.