These sections cover features and functions that are only available to administrators, including Aspire Core, connectors, and configuration. 

Launch Control

Aspire Core Administration

Step-by-step instructions for starting Aspire and shutting it down, plus information on installing Aspire as a service and setting the Aspire Home directory

Aspire Shell

Step-by-step instructions for starting Aspire Shell and using groovy scripting and other commands in it

Administration User Interface

An introduction to the Aspire System Administration user interface and the tasks that can be accomplished using it

The Debug Console

An introduction to the Debug Console and the tasks that can be accomplished using it, plus common commands for managing Aspire components from the console

Settings Configuration (settings.xml)

Detailed information on the settings.xml file and the environmental information and properties about the Aspire installation contained within

Directory Structure 

A recommended data structure for Aspire installations

In-Depth Administration 

Workflow Applications

Connectors

Publishers

Admin UI 

Distributed Processing

Content Management

Content Sources

Content Sources

A content source is a high level unit of processing, it consists of a connector configuration, a schedule and a workflow processing configuration.

Detailed information about the new features and how they can help you to manage your set of content sources.

Configuring

• Workflow
  Detailed information about the workflow configuration for your content source.

• [Using Groovy
  Detailed information about using groovy scripting inside your content source workflows.

• Configuration Files
  Information about the configuration files created for each content source in the Aspire Distribution directory

In-depth topics

Aspire Administration Topics

The following are in-depth topics on Aspire administration.

Content Sources

Using Groovy

Configuration Files

Workflow

Workflow Application Library

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

Component Library

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

Connector Library

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

Publisher Library