Installing the Digital Hive Software

Question

How do you install Digital Hive?

Digital Hive can be installed in Windows or Linux environments.

Download Digital Hive Installer, for example DigitalHive-2024.2_win-x64.zip to the server
Extract the file to a directory, in this example C:\DHInstaller
In File Explorer, navigate to where you extracted the file in step 2. In this example, C:\DHInstaller\DigitalHive-installer-win-x64
Right-click setup.exe
Select run as Administrator
When you see this, click More info
Click Run anyway
Click Yes and you should see the installer UI
Click Next
Enter Licensee name and License Key that you were provided
Click Next
Select I do accept the terms of this license agreement
Click Next
Select Install
Click Next
Select Express (Recommended) and Full installation

NOTE: Custom and Individual components are for installing specific components and failover nodes
Click Next
Enter where you would like to install Digital Hive, the default location is C:\DigitalHive
Click Next
Click OK
You can leave the default username as dhAdmin or change it to what youlike and enter your desired password
Click Next
If you would like install the Recommender, check Install IQ
Click Next
You can keep the default ports or change them to whatever you like. For example, some people prefer the HTTPS port to be 443 and HTTP port to be 80
Click Next
If you see this, click Allow access
If you see this, click Allow access
Click Done

Congratulations, Digital Hive is now installed and should be up and running!

Open your browser (Chrome or Edge are preferred)
Enter this URL https://DigitalHiveServer:9443
For example, if you left the default port as 9443 and Digital Hive server name is test.digitalhive.com, you would tnere this:
https://test.digitalhive.com:9443
If you changed the port to 443, then you wouldn't need to specify the port

In Services, select Elasticsearch 5.5.1 (DigitalHive_9200)
Note there is also a second Elasticsearch node: DigitalHive_9201
Click Start or Stop

Create a non-root user to use for the Digital Hive installation
Edit the limits.conf file, for example, sudo vi /etc/security/limits.conf
Add the following properties and save the file (include the *)
* soft nofile 65536

* hard nofile 65536

* soft nproc 2048

* hard nproc 4096

* soft memlock unlimited

* hard memlock unlimited
Using sudo, edit sysctl.conf, sudo vi /etc/sysctl.conf
Add the following lines and save the file
#Added for Elasticsearch
vm.max_map_count=262144
Reboot the server, sudo reboot

Download and FTP DigitalHive-2024.2_linux-x64.tar.gz (filename example) to the Linux server
Unzip the file: gunzip DigitalHive-2024.2_linux-x64.tar.gz
Untar the file: tar -xvf DigitalHive-2024.2_linux-x64.tar.gz.tar
As the DigitalHive user, run the installer with this command: ./setup.sh
Press 1 to continue
Enter Licensee name: <your provided license name>
Enter License key: <your provided license key>
Press 1 to continue
Press spacebar until this prompt: Press 1 to accept, 2 to reject, 3 to display
Enter 1
Enter 0 (or press Enter)
Enter 1
Enter 0 (or press Enter)
Enter 0 (or press Enter)
Enter 1
Enter where you would like to install Digital Hive (or press enter to accept the default path)
Either keep the suggested path or enter your desired home path
Enter O
Enter 1
Enter your desired username or press enter to accept the default dhadmin
Enter your desired password and press enter
Confirm the password by entering it again
Enter 1
Enter 1 to install IQ (our recommender engine)
Enter 1 to continue
Press Enter for all the preflight checks (assuming all ports are correct)
Enter 1
Digital Hive should now be installed successfully and this will be displayed

Navigate to where you installed Digital Hive, in this example cd /home/mk3admin/DigitalHive
Stop Digital Hive with ./stopAll.sh
Start Digital Hive with ./startAll.sh

Open your browser (Chrome or Edge are preferred)
Enter this URL https://DigitalHiveServer:9443
For example, if you left the default port as 9443 and Digital Hive server name is test.digitalhive.com, you would tnere this:
https://test.digitalhive.com:9443
If you changed the port to 443, then you wouldn't need to specify the port

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