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Install

In order to index records and files you will need to complete these steps

  1. Install standalone Elastic search server
  2. Install and configure Tempus Serva file indexing
  3. Configure the Tempus Serva installation

Finally you may want to install optional components to handle OCR (scanned PDF's and images)

Install Elastic search

Java 8 / Elastic search 6

This is the recommended version but requires Java 8.

Follow these steps:

 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 update -y
 sudo yum install -y elasticsearch
 sudo chkconfig elasticsearch on

The service runner configurations should have updated RAM allowance by adding an extra line in the file

  sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf
  vm.max_map_count=262144

Restart service and validate settings were updated

  sudo sysctl --system
  sysctl vm.max_map_count

Run the daemon

 sudo service elasticsearch start

Java 7 / Elastic search 1.7

This version is an alternate version.

Install and unpack files

 sudo wget https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.7.6.tar.gz
 tar -xvf elasticsearch-1.7.6.tar.gz
 sudo rm elasticsearch-1.7.6.tar.gz

Run as a daemon

 elasticsearch-1.7.6/bin/elasticsearch -d

Test that the service is running

 curl 'http://localhost:9200/?pretty'
Handling crashes

ElasticSearch normally requires 1GB of memory, which is in the default memory configuation

 sudo nano /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options

Set the maximum memory entry to a lower value

 -Xmx256m

Then restart the service

 sudo service elasticsearch restart

Fixing: "curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 9200: Connection refused"

In some cases the firewall needs to be configured

  sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 9200 --syn -j ACCEPT
  sudo iptables -I INPUT -p udp --dport 9200 -j ACCEPT
  sudo iptables-save

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

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