# Integrating and running CAS crawls that write to Record Store instances

This section describes the high-level steps for integrating and running a CAS crawl that writes output to a Record Store instance.

This section assumes you have done the following:

- Installed and started the CAS Service and CAS Console.
- Installed an EAC Agent and started it on the server running the CAS Service.
- Deployed an application using the template.
- Configured an application by editing the AppConfig.xml.

The steps below are described in their own topics.

1. Create a CAS crawl.
2. Specify a CAS Server host in AppConfig.xml.
3. Specify a CAS Server as a custom component.
4. Specify a pipeline to run in AppConfig.xml.
5. Add code to run a CAS crawl (full or incremental).
6. Run a CAS crawl (full or incremental).
7. Coordinate CAS crawls and baseline or partial updates.

Related tasks
Deploying an EAC application on UNIX
Deploying an EAC application on Windows
Configuring an application