Abstract: A system and method of an automated client server architecture for describing, controlling, and executing a collection of “tools” that can be collectively used to automatically create or update an Index (via crawling) and then automatically enriching that Index (via various enhancement tools) while requiring minimal human intervention. Agents (Clients) can announce their availability to Control Center (server) for authentication and units of work. The Control Center coordinates and distributes work to authenticated Agents, including the software to perform the work, as required. This disclosure seeks to resolve the issue of enabling a suite of tools to be implemented and executed on a host file share, ECM and other non-ECM content stores in such a manner that minimizes the requirement for human intervention while also minimizing any impact to system or network performance for end users, while facilitating the benefits of these processes in a timely and effective manner.