Prerequisites

The external indexer can be installed on the following 64-bit operating systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7, 8, and their derivatives, such as CentOS, Oracle Linux, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, etc.

NOTE: Derivatives are supported only if an issue can be reproduced on an official RHEL distribution. Do not report issues specific to a derivative OS but not to RHEL.

To install the external indexer

  1. Log in as root to the host that you want to use to index your audit trails.

  2. Copy the installer package to the host.

    NOTE: Due to legal reasons, installation packages of the external indexer application will be available only from the SPS web interface. After SPS versions 6.4 and 6.0.3 are released, the installation packages will be removed from our website.

  3. Install the package using the package manager of the operating system. For example:

    yum install external-indexer-standalone-<version-number>.x86_64.rpm

    The installer performs the following steps automatically.

    • Unpacks the indexer files into the /opt/external-indexer/ directory.

    • Installs the related init scripts (the /etc/init.d/external-indexer init script, and adds the init script configuration to /etc/sysconfig/external-indexer).

    • Creates the indexer user and usergroup. This is an unprivileged user that is used to run the indexer application.

    • Registers the service to start automatically on system boot. Note that the indexer init script uses bind mount points.

  4. Configure the indexer. For details, see Configuring the external indexer.