Acquire, process & index content from many data sources

Connectors and Content Processing

A scalable & resilient server cluster for content acquisition & content processing. Process and publish content securely.

Framework

Process content using multi-threaded, high performance, pipelines of components. Built on OSGi.

Get Started & Install Aspire

Aspire introduction

Aspire 3.2 What's New

Prerequisites to Connectors and Content Processing

Install Aspire, an Aspire connector application, and an Aspire publisher application. Get an idea of how to install Aspire applications using the Admin UI.

Getting Started Tutorial

Aspire Administration

Configure and maintain Aspire deployments manged through the Admin UI. An Aspire system administrator (or several) may be responsible for different content sources. Learn how to use Admin UI.

General administration

Content management

Admin UI

Settings

Aspire Cloudera Parcel and Aspire Cloudera Services

Release Notes & FAQ

Aspire release notes

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

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*Aspire 3.2 Connector and Publisher details

Aspire Basic bundled contains all former Community and Enterprise connectors and all publishers. Aspire Basic is restricted (via licensing) to systems that contain less than 1 million documents.

Aspire Enterprise contains all connectors included in Aspire Basic, but can scale for extremely large amounts of content (unlimited number of documents).

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For details, see Aspire Licensing Updates

Connectors

Access pre-built connectors for Aspire* from the following categories.

File systems (9)

Relational databases (3)

Content management systems (6)

Collaboration (12)

CRM

Website (HTTP)

Staging repository

Social network (4)
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Others (8)

Standalone mode

Publishers

Access the pre-built publishers for Aspire* from the following categories.

Uncategorized (11)

Publish to FAST (1)

File systems (4)

Staging repository

Services & Workflow

Search Technologies provides enterprise search & big data expertise, consulting & integration services, and applications. Applications contain configurable components so you can create solutions to acquire data from your content repositories.

Services

Applications

Solutions

1. Introduction

1.1 Aspire introduction

1.1.1 Introduction to Aspire 3

1.1.2 Key Concepts

1.1.3 Aspire UI Introduction

1.1.4 Migration to Aspire 2

1.1.5 What's different in Aspire 2.0?

1.1.6 What's different in Aspire 2.1?

1.1.7 Aspire Community

1.1.8 Aspire Enterprise

1.1.9 Open Source Components

1.2 Getting Started with Aspire 3.2

1.2.1 Registration

1.2.2 Hardware and Network Considerations

1.2.3 Download and Install - Aspire in 20 minutes

1.2.4 Quick Start with Distribution Archetype - Aspire in 40 minutes using the distribution archetype

1.2.5 Basic Tutorial

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See below, under Creating Applications, for the quick start tutorial if you will be using Aspire to create new applications.

1.3 Aspire 3.2 for Hadoop

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Information on how to integrate Aspire with Hadoop to create big data solutions using Aspire configuration pipelines.

1.3.1 Aspire for Hadoop

1.3.1.1 Install - How to install Aspire for Hadoop, which pieces are required

1.3.1.2 Components - List of available Aspire components designed to interact with Hadoop

1.3.1.3 Developing Aspire Solutions with Hadoop - How to develop Aspire Solutions with Hadoop using available components and groovy scripting

2. Administration

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Documentation for Aspire 3.2 administration, such as installing/removing applications, servers, handling network configurations, etc.

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2.4 Debugging

2.4.1 System Health and Debug

2.4.2 The Debug Console

2.4.3 Performance Reports

2.4.4 Aspire Administration Topics

2.5 Application bundles and components

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Applications are pre-built configurations which combine multiple components into pipelines to perform larger, more comprehensive tasks.

2.5.1 Workflow Application Library

A list of all pre-built workflow applications for Aspire available from Search Technologies

2.5.2 Component Library

A list of all pre-built components for Aspire available from Search Technologies

2.5.3 Connector Library

A list of all pre-built connectors for Aspire available from Search Technologies

2.5.4 Publisher Library

A list of all pre-built publishers for Aspire available from Search Technologies

3. Creating Applications

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Creating new applications with the framework by configuring pipelines and core components.

3.1 Creating Applications

3.2 Introduction to Aspire Applications

3.2.1 Quick Start Tutorial for Creating Applications

3.3 Dynamic XML Forms (Dxf) - Create a DXF for configuring your application from the UI

3.4 Aspire Application Configuration (application.xml)

3.4.1 Pipeline Manager

3.4.2 Branch Handler

3.4.3 Batch Job

3.4.4 Naming Components - And referencing other components by name

3.5 Using The Maven Distribution Archetype

3.5.1 Quick Start with Aspire Distribution - Aspire in 40 minutes using the distribution archetype

3.6 Application and Configuration Topics

3.7 Component Library

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The component library lists all pre-built Java components which can be configured and combined to create new Aspire applications. These include Feeders & Scanners, Sub Job Extractors, Standard Pipeline Stages, Security Related Stages, Components as Independent Services, and Debugging Stages.