A prerequisite for crawling Socialcast is to have a Socialcast account. This account should have sufficient permissions to crawl documents for indexing. So it should have access to all the groups (including private groups) that you want to crawl. Yo may add an existing user account or create new one. If you are creating new one the recommended name for this account is "aspire_crawl_account" or something similar.
The username and password for this account will be required below.
The Aspire Socialcast connector was created and tested using a Socialcast Community version 2-95-3 with REST API.
Before installing the Socialcast Connector, make sure that:
You will need the user login later, as part of installing the Socialcast Connector.
The Aspire Socialcast connector can run on either Windows or Linux. It uses the REST API over HTTP or HTTPS to communicate with Socialcast.
The API service should be started and running automatically if Socialcast is up and running. These are required for the Aspire Socialcast Connector to successfully connect with the Socialcast docbase that you want to index.
We need Java Development Kit (JDK) to run Aspire Socialcast connector. Please check JAVA_HOME and PATH environment variables to make sure Aspire running on JDK not JRE.