Install In order to index records and files you will need to complete these steps Install standalone Elastic search server Install and configure Tempus Serva file indexing 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