User's Guide

Part 1 – Installing and Configuring ElastiFlow and Elastic Stack
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Part 1 – Installing and Configuring ElastiFlow and
Elastic Stack
ElastiFlow installation instructions can be found at:
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https://github.com/robcowart/elastiflow/blob/master/INSTALL.md
Other helpful installation links are:
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https://www.catapultsystems.com/blogs/install-elastiflow-on-ubuntu-18-04-part-1/
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1. Download and install the Oracle Server JRE 8 in one of the following ways:
a. Via the Ubuntu bundle by entering the following commands:
$sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre
Verify Oracle Server JRE8 is installed properly by entering the
following:
$java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_212"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_212-8u212-
b03-0ubuntu1.18.04.1-b03)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.212-b03, mixed
mode)
b. Via the external Java web site by following the instructions at:
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/server-jre8-downloads-
2133154.html
2. Install Elastic Stack 6.7 (6.7.2 at time of writing) by entering the following
commands:
wget -qO - https://artifacts.elastic.co/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch |
sudo apt-key add
echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/6.x/apt stable
main" | sudo tee -a
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-6.x.list
a. Install Elastic Search:
sudo apt update; sudo apt -y install elasticsearch
(You may need to run sudo apt-get -f install to update packages before you