About the IAS Server

The IAS Server manages all crawl operations. The IAS Server has a WSDL interface and an IAS Server Command Line Utility. The IAS Server runs inside the IAS Service.

The IAS Server has the following characteristics:

Includes the IAS Document Conversion Module, which allows the IAS Server to convert binary files (such as Microsoft Word documents and Adobe Acrobat PDF files) into text.
Uses include and exclude filters to specify which files or folders to retrieve or avoid.
Configures the logging behavior for a crawl, including setting the log level for various components and specifying output to the console, to a log file, or to both.
Supports incremental crawls in which the IAS Server processes only the content that has been added, modified, or deleted since the last crawl.

The IAS Server also tags the records with metadata properties that are derived from the source documents. After the IAS Server returns the records, you can configure an Endeca Record Store Reader (in Integrator) to read the records into your Endeca graph, where Integrator ETL processes the records and can add or modify the record properties. You can then build an Endeca application to access the records and allow your application users to search and navigate the document contents contained in the records.

You can configure the IAS Server to generate access control list (ACL) properties for each record that a crawl produces. These ACL properties can be used in conjunction with security login modules to limit access to records based on user login profiles. For details on using the Endeca Access Control System, see the Security Guide for Integrator.