Digital Hive Installation and Configuration Overview
Overview
This article serves as a collection of all the steps required to install and configure the Digital Hive solution.
Prerequisites
Digital Hive can be installed on either Windows or Linux based systems. From a server sizing perspective, the default requirements are:
- RAM: 16GB
- Disk Space: 50GB and at least 10% of the total disk space free
![](https://static.zohocdn.com/zoho-desk-editor/static/images/caution.png)
The disk space requirement of at least 10% available space is a hard requirement as some components of Digital Hive won't successfully install without this requirement being met.
Installing Digital Hive
Increasing the Default Memory Utilization
Out of the box, Digital Hive is configured to use a small memory footprint. While these settings are functional, it may be desired to increase the amount of memory allocated for some of the installed components.
Configuring Digital Hive to use an External Source for Authentication
It is possible to leverage other external security sources for authentication into Digital Hive:
Connecting to Third Party Content Systems
In addition to creating connectors for the content systems, you need to indicate which content will be accessible and searchable through Digital Hive.
Related Articles
Digital Hive Architecture Overview
Overview Digital Hive is a lightweight, web-based application that is both easy to install as well as to maintain and manage. Other than the Microsoft C++ redistributable (https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=40784), there are no ...
Digital Hive Load Balancing
Question Due to the number of users and the critical nature of the BI reports, it is desirable to introduce more capacity into the Digital Hive environment. Can Digital Hive be installed across multiple servers? Answer Digital Hive can be installed ...
Discoverable Search Feature Overview
Overview By default, the only content that appears for a user in Digital Hive is the content that the user would see if they logged into the BI system(s) as themselves. In other words, Digital Hive will not expose content to a user that they are not ...
Upgrading Digital Hive on Windows to the 2024.3 Release
Overview The 2024.3 Digital Hive release brings a lot of new capabilities to the market. In order to deliver some of the new features, changes to the underlying technology stack that underpins the Digital Hive solution had to be made. The 2024.3 ...
Upgrading Digital Hive on Linux to the 2024.3 Release
Overview The 2024.3 Digital Hive release brings a lot of new capabilities to the market. In order to deliver some of the new features, changes to the underlying technology stack that underpins the Digital Hive solution had to be made. The 2024.3 ...