Use the Zip Package

The zip package contains a .jar file, and an install directory that contains the individual installation files.

To install IHPE IDOL Search Optimizer on Ubuntu Linux

  1. Ensure that all the software listed in External Requirements is installed, running, and available.
  2. Create a user and group to run HPE IDOL Search Optimizer as. HPE recommends that you use searchoptimizer as both the user name and the group name:

    $ useradd searchoptimizer

  3. Create a directory in which to install HPE IDOL Search Optimizer. HPE recommends that you use /opt/searchoptimizer as the installation directory.

    $ mkdir /opt/searchoptimizer

  4. Create a directory to serve as the home directory for HPE IDOL Search Optimizer. HPE recommends that you use /opt/searchoptimizer/home as the home directory.

    $ mkdir /opt/searchoptimizer/home

  5. Copy the HPE IDOL Search Optimizer searchoptimizer.jar file into the installation directory:

    $ cp searchoptimizer.jar /opt/searchoptimizer/

  6. Recursively change the ownership of the installation directory:

    $ chown -R searchoptimizer:searchoptimizer /opt/searchoptimizer

  7. Deploy the startup script.

  8. If you have used any non-default paths and so on during installation, edit the startup script to contain the values that you used.

  9. Start the application.

To install HPE IDOL Search Optimizer as a Windows Service

  1. Download a copy of the Windows service wrapper from https://github.com/hpe-idol/winsw, and change the name of the winsw.exe executable file to searchoptimizer.exe.
  2. The install directory in the HPE IDOL Search Optimizer installation zip package includes a Windows folder. This folder contains a winsw folder, which in turn contains a searchoptimizer.xml file. Move the searchoptimizer.exe file into this folder.
  3. Ensure that the HPE IDOL Search Optimizer home directory and port are correctly configured in the searchoptimizer.xml configuration file. You must also ensure that searchoptimizer.exe, searchoptimizer.xml, and searchoptimizer.war are all in the same directory.
  4. Run the following command from the Windows command line to install HPE IDOL Search Optimizer as a service:

    searchoptimizer.exe install

Note: You can also use the following commands with searchoptimizer.exe:

For more information, see https://github.com/hpe-idol/winsw.

Before you start HPE IDOL Search Optimizer, follow the steps in Configure HPE IDOL Search Optimizer, and ensure that you have set up the required user roles in HPE IDOL Community. A user must be a member of one of these roles to log into HPE IDOL Search Optimizer. See User Roles for more information.


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