Creating a crawl using the CAS Server Command-line Utility

If you want to use the CAS Server Command-line Utility, you configure a crawl by creating a crawl configuration file and passing the file as an argument (-f) to the createCrawls task of the utility.

For new crawls, the CAS Server writes crawl output to a Record Store instance by default. This topic describes how to create a new crawl to write crawl output to any of the CAS output formats including:

To create a crawl:

  1. Manually create an XML crawl configuration file. The configuration settings in the file vary depending on the output formats you want. See the following samples:

    Sample configuration for writing output to a Record Store instance

    Sample configuration for writing output to an MDEX compatible format

    Sample configuration for writing output to a file

  2. Save and close the XML crawl configuration file.

  3. Start a command prompt, navigate to <install path>\CAS\<version>\bin, and locate the CAS Server Command-line utility (cas-cmd).

  4. Run the createCrawls task of the cas-cmd and specify the -f option with an argument that specifies a path to the crawl configuration file you created.

    For example, in a default CAS installation on Windows, this command creates a new crawl configured by the file crawlConfig.xml. 

    C:\Endeca\CAS\<version>\bin>cas-cmd createCrawls -f C:\tmp\crawlConfig.xml

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