Crawler Service 

Use

The crawler service allows crawlers to collect resources located in internal or external repositories, for example, for indexing purposes. The crawlers return the resources and the hierarchical or net-like structures of the respective repositories.

Services and applications that need repositories to be crawled (for example, the index management service) request a crawler from the crawler service.

 

Integration

The crawler service is a prerequisite for the following services.

 

·        Index Management Service

·        Subscription Service

·        Content Exchange Service

 

It is a generic service that can be used by any CM service or application.

 

Features

The behavior of crawlers can be controlled using parameters (see Crawlers and Crawler Parameters). In the configuration of the crawler service you enter a set of crawler parameters that are used by default for index management tasks.

 

Crawler Service Parameters

Parameters	Required	Description
Default Crawler Parameters	Yes	Specifies a set of crawler parameters that are used by default if no other set is prescribed. The presetting is the set standard. It can also be used for delta crawling.

 

Activities

The crawler service is activated and preconfigured in the KM standard configuration. Normally, you do not need to change its configuration. To call up the configuration, choose Content Management ® Global Services ® Crawler Service.