Great tip, thanks for sharing that :) Regards, Mark Walkom
Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 13 June 2014 01:25, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > Not sure about the downsides of running Kibana as a site plugin, but > here's how I got it to work so that others can perform create and run our > initial evaluations with ease. > > The Elasticsearch bin/plugin command doesn't seem to read the location > into which I have put my configuration, and it's not necessary anyway. But > it was very helpful to determine the exact directory structure. > > First, I store the current versions of Elasticsearch and kibana in the /opt > tree. The config directory contains updated versions of ES configurations > that are suggested for use by a deployment, but the actual versions used > will be outside of this directory tree and will likely be maintained by > Puppet or similar tool. The plugins directory is where I have configured ES > to look for plugins; as Kibana3 shows, the version of the plugins does not > need to be tied directly to a specific version of ES even though this is > the case when the plugin uses the Java API and not the REST API. > > $ ls -1 /opt/elk/current > bin > config > elasticsearch-1.2.1 > kibana-3.1.0 > logs > plugins > > So "installing" Kibana-3.1.0 as a site plugin was a simple matter of: > > $ mkdir /opt/elk/current/plugins/kibana3 > $ ln -s /opt/elk/current/kibana-3.1.0 > /opt/elk/current/plugins/kibana3/_site > > Verifying the link: > > $ ls -l /opt/elk/current/plugins/kibana3/_site > lrwxr-xr-x 1 brian admin 33 Jun 11 14:16 > /opt/elk/current/plugins/kibana3/_site -> /opt/elk/current/kibana-3.1.0 > > Now it's just as if Kibana was installed directly into the plugins > directory, but it didn't need to be stored there physically. > > Brian > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/5f1102fe-b3c3-4a5a-b754-eef7f5168ba8%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/5f1102fe-b3c3-4a5a-b754-eef7f5168ba8%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624YiSAamQSpxs-VN4PTp9XJVUnqeTLpq5aAxMkZH5r%3DESQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
