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Find the IP-address

• If you have dhcp, Searchdaimon ES will already have allocated an IP-address. You can always see the current IP-address on the operating system console.
• If you don't have dhcp, you can configure a static ip-address using the operating systems console. Log in as user 'setup' (no password), and set IP-address for eth1. (detailed guide)

Tip: If the console screen is black, the screensaver has been activated. Click your mouse pointer in the middle of the screen, and move it around. Press Ctrl-Alt to exit the console.

Open the administration panel

Use a web browser to navigate to your administration panel at http://{IP-address}/admin . Username is 'admin', and password 'water66'. Follow the instructions from the First time wizard. This will allow you to change network settings and add the primary usersystem.

Add primary usersystem

The ES can be integrated with Microsoft Active Directory for handling authenticating and authorizing of end-users. We currently do not support any other user systems, or the possibility to add users to the ES directly. But you can use the ES without a users system to make public search functions, like search on a website.

For legacy reasons you most setup a Active Directory as primary user system, even if you don't have an Active Directory. If you don't have an Active directory, please see below how to get true this step.

User system: Setup Microsoft Active Directory

The ES uses Ldap to connect to Microsoft Active Directory. Ldap is enabled as default in Windows server. If you have a standard setup of Active Directory you will only need to specify:

• Domain: Your Active Directory domain.
• Ip: Ip address or hostname to one of your Active Directory servers.
• User and Password: A user account the ES can use to connect to the directory. Normally all users can access Active Directory by Ldap, so the user account can be any account.

Exemple

Verify the user system

If you are using Microsoft Active Directory go to “End users” and verify that you can list users. If you can’t you may have to go over the settings for your ad again. You will find this settings as “User systems” in the main menu.

Enable users to login

Select End users, and select which users should have search access.

You have to active those users who should have access. Her you see the Under End users, all users in the primary user system are listed. Click on those users you want to activate, and remember to click "Update user access" when done.

User system: Don’t use a user system or single sign-on

If you don’t have a Microsoft Active directory you can just name it "Fake ad" and use the following values to get true this step.

Using thus values no end-users can log in, but you can allow everyone search access, as described in the faq at Searching without logging in (anonymous user) .

Add collections

You can add collections manually, or by scanning.

Try the first search

Use a webbrowser to log in as a normal user at http://{IP-address}/. or http://{IP-address}/public if you have enabled public search in any collections.