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+# Setup a elastic search
+
+* Install elastic search
+
+* Install attachment plugin
+  cd /usr/share/elasticsearch
+  bin/plugin -install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-mapper-attachments/2.0.0
+
+* Configure elastic search
+
+  * rails r "Setting.set('es_url', 'http://172.0.0.1:9200')"
+  * rails r "Setting.set('es_user', 'elasticsearch')" # optional
+  * rails r "Setting.set('es_password', 'zammad')" # optional
+  * rails r "Setting.set('es_index', Socket.gethostname + '_zammad')" # optional
+
+* Create elastic search indexes
+  * rake searchindex:rebuild # drop/create/reload
+