Creating a Jahia and Elasticsearch cluster connection using X-Pack

The following steps are required in order to create a connection between Jahia and an Elasticsearch cluster using X-Pack.

This document only applies to versions of Jahia below 8.0 and jCustomer below 1.5.0

More recent versions of Jahia and jCustomer use ElasticSearch 7.4.x which has X-Pack now included.

Downloads

The following libraries are required in order to use the X-Pack plugin:

• X-Pack API Plugin (version 5.6.3)
• X-Pack transport client (version 5.6.3)
• UnboundID LDAP SDK (version 3.2.0)
• Bouncy Castle PKIX (version 1.5.5)
• Bouncy Castle Provider (version 1.5.5)
• Java Mail API (version 1.5.3)

Plugin installation on Elasticsearch cluster

Please ensure that X-Pack is already enabled on your Elasticsearch cluster.

Stop your Elasticsearch cluster.

Then, run the following command on every Elasticsearch cluster node, using absolute paths.

/elasticsearch_installtion_path/bin/elasticsearch-plugin install file:///path/to/file/x-pack-5.6.3.zip 

Allow additional permissions:

Allow fork of native controller:

Installation should be successful:

You can now restart your Elasticsearch cluster.

Jahia X-Pack Maven Dependencies deployments

Copy the previously downloaded files into a directory that you must create on all the nodes <DX-installation-folder>/digital-factory-data/karaf/data/x-pack, before attempting to configure the ElasticSearch connection in the administration:

1. ​javax.mail-1.5.3.jar
2. bcprov-jdk15on-1.55.jar
3. bcpkix-jdk15on-1.55.jar
4. unboundid-ldapsdk-3.2.0.jar
5. x-pack-api-5.6.3.jar
6. x-pack-transport-5.6.3.jar

You can now create an Elasticsearch X-Pack security enabled connection using Elasticsearch connector