Quick Installation for a Jive Evaluation

Use this Quick Installation procedure to set up a small instance of Jive for evaluation and testing purposes only.

Note: The following steps assume you are installing Jive on a supported Linux operating system and you've never had Jive installed on the computer you're using for this evaluation. This procedure also assumes you are not running the Document Conversion feature or are tying any additional web application cluster or cache nodes to the environment.

Step	Task	More Details
1	Review the System Requirements.	Although this is an evaluation of Jive, you still need to install it on a supported Linux operating system and make sure it can communicate with remote resources. If you use a proxy server, make sure it's configured correctly to access the required external resources. To find out more, see Connecting to Jive-Hosted Services and Connecting Through a Proxy Server.
2	Copy the Jive application RPM package to all nodes in the environment.	Here's an example using the Linux `scp` command to copy the package from a computer named "joesbox" to a target system at "targetsystem": scp -v joe@joesbox:/Users/joe/jive.rpm root@targetsystem:/root
3	Install the Jive RPM package on all nodes.	Use a command such as `rpm -Uhv jive.rpm`. Note that your copy of the Jive RPM package (called jive.rpm in this example) will have a slightly different name.
4	Configure Jive using the setup wizard by running `jive setup` on all of the nodes.	Note that you must be the jive user to run `jive setup` (`su - jive`). You may need to re-run `jive setup` until you get the `setup ok` message.
5	Install and configure the Activity Engine Database, Core Databases, and the optional Analytics Database.	For evaluation purposes, you can install the Activity Engine, Analytics, and Core databases together, but this is not supported in a production environment. The simplest way to set up a database on Linux is to perform a Quick database setup for evaluation using a Postgres database. If you'll be using a database whose driver is not included, ensure its driver is in the application's classpath by following the steps in Database Prerequisites.
6	Start the services.	Note that you must be the jive user to run these commands (`su - jive`): `jive enable eae` `jive enable search` `jive enable webapp` `jive enable httpd`
7	Re-run `jive setup` on all of the nodes.	This causes the installer to detect any service-specific startup properties that need to be set. Run `jive setup` until you get the `setup ok` message.
8	After you see the `setup ok` message, start the instance.	`jive start`
9	From a web browser, visit your new community and finish configuring it from the Admin Console's setup wizard.	With a supported web browser, navigate to http://<hostname>:8080, where hostname is the DNS-resolvable name of the server where you installed the Jive application.
10	Integrate your Directory Server.	If you plan to populate your community with users synchronized from your LDAP or Active Directory implementation, see the LDAP and Active Directory Guide.