Commands to install and configure ElasticSearch on Ubuntu

commands.md

Install ElasticSearch and Java

1  wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.0.1.deb
2  sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-1.0.1.deb
3  sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults 95 10
4  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
5  sudo apt-get update
6  sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
7  java -version

Find out where the stuff is installed

1 dpkg --contents elasticsearch-1.0.1.deb

Configure ElasticSearch

1 df
2 sudo vi /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml
    uncomment: bootstrap.mlockall: true
    change to you location: path.data: /mnt/elasticsearch/data
3 cd /mnt
4 sudo mkdir elasticsearch
5 cd elasticsearch/
6 sudo mkdir data
7 cd data
8 sudo mkdir elasticsearch
9 sudo chmod 777 /mnt/elasticsearch/data
10 sudo chmod 777 /mnt/elasticsearch/data/elasticsearch

Setup memory for ES (there are few ways... you could also edit ~/.profile)

1 sudo vi /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch
  add (more or less depnding on your server capabilities): 
    export ES_MIN_MEM=60G
    export ES_MAX_MEM=60G

Install ES plugins

1 cd /usr/share/elasticsearch
2 sudo bin/plugin --install mobz/elasticsearch-head
3 sudo bin/plugin --install lukas-vlcek/bigdesk
4 sudo bin/plugin -i elasticsearch/marvel/latest

Run ES

1 sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch start
2 sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch stop
3 sudo /etc/init.d/elasticsearch restart
4 tail -f /var/log/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.log