ASF System Administration

These documents provide details about how to administer the components of the ASF software. Here is a brief summary of the command lines needed to invoke each of the programs

Iindex

builds the searchable indexes for collections of documents. The documents can be ordinary text, GILS templates (tagged in SGML or XML) or HTML documents. A variety of other types of documents can be indexed and searched, as well.

Iindex -d <database_name> -t <type-of-document> [-m NN] [<list-of-filename> | -f <filename> ]

Example:

Iindex -d asftest -t HTML -m 8 /home/httpd/html/gils/*.html

Iutil

exports GILS templates from a database created by Iindex.

Iutil -d <database_name> -gils

Example:

Iutil -d asftest -gils

ASFserv

the Z39.50 server. It requires the path to its configuration and log files on the command line. The configuration file can be modified through a web-based utility.

Example:

/usr/local/etc/asf/ASFserv -d /usr/local/etc/asf/ASFserv &

zap

the WWW-to-Z39.50 gateway. It is configured through hidden fields in the HTML search form, and associated format files. Zap runs as a CGI script, and so must be installed in your http server's cgi-bin directory.

IDS

the node-to-node directory service