Installation Guide

Introduction

Hoover is based on two main applications :

• Snoop for indexing files data and metadata
• Search for performing queries in the index. The search user interface is set in a separated project : UI

The two apps might be installed on the same server, as well as the databases they relate to.

Requirements

• NodeJS 5+ including npm
• Python 3.4+ and virtualenv (strongly recommended)
• PostgreSQL 9.x
• Elasticsearch 2.x
• Nginx or other HTTP server for remote connections managemenent

Prerequisites

PostgreSQL databases

Two databases must be created on the PostgreSQL server :

• hoover-snoop : will contain a list of imported file, and the processing queue
• hoover-search: TODO explain what it contains