Elastic search install

Elastic Search guide Linux

ES will work standalone with no other components

ES installation

Install using yum installer

 sudo rpm --import https://packages.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
 sudo sh -c 'curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nl5887/b4a56bfd84501c2b2afb/raw/elasticsearch.repo >> /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo'
 sudo yum install -y elasticsearch

Alternative: Install with RPM

 wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-8.9.1-x86_64.rpm
 wget https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-8.9.1-x86_64.rpm.sha512
 shasum -a 512 -c elasticsearch-8.9.1-x86_64.rpm.sha512 
 sudo rpm --install elasticsearch-8.9.1-x86_64.rpm
 sudo rpm -e elasticsearch-8.9.1-x86_64.rpm

ES Configuration

Ensure service is started automatically

 sudo chkconfig elasticsearch on

Reduce memory usage

 sudo nano /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options
 -Xms256m
 -Xmx256m

Start service the first time

 sudo service elasticsearch start

Validate service is running

 curl 'http://localhost:9200/app/_count?pretty&q='y

File indexer installation

For the file Indexer to work multiple components are required

Reindexing existing data

Data can be reindexed using

 Backend > Admin services > Rebuild artifacts > Index blobs 

Optionally include the files too

 Backend > Admin services > Rebuild artifacts > Index files