Knowledge Discovery 26.1
Getting Started Guide

# Knowledge Discovery Installation and Setup

After you have decided on a Knowledge Discovery architecture, you must decide on how to set up and distribute your system across multiple machines.

For a simple installation, to explore features or for testing, you can use a single machine for all components. However, in a production system, you usually separate some of the components on to separate disks or hardware.

In systems where you have large processing requirements for certain tasks, you can separate the components onto their own servers. This separation allows you to isolate and scale resources independently for different functions, according to their individual requirements. You can also place the components on their own hardware or virtual machine.

For more information about sizing and scaling your Knowledge Discovery system, refer to Knowledge Discovery Expert.

## Component ZIP Packages

Knowledge Discovery components can be installed from ZIP packages.

Each component ZIP package provides a configuration file, and the required modules for the component. It also includes a component-specific Help file, which contains the actions and configuration parameters relevant to that component, and for most components also contains the Administration Guide.

To install the component, you extract the ZIP package to the host where you want to run the component. You must update the `[License]` section of the configuration file to include appropriate license information. If you have more than one version of a component running on the same host, you might also need to update the port information to ensure that each component uses a different port.

After you install each of the components, you must modify the configuration files to ensure that the components can contact any other necessary components. For example, for Knowledge Discovery Text components you must configure:

- the Category component with the details of the data index (Content component), and the category index (Agentstore component).
- the Community component with the details of the agent index (Agentstore component).
- the View component with the details of an Content component that it can use for highlighting.

For full details about installing components from zip packages, see Install Knowledge Discovery.

## Containers

OpenText provides container images for Knowledge Discovery components for Docker and Kubernetes that allow you to create a Knowledge Discovery environment automatically from containers.

For more information about installing Knowledge Discovery using containers, and the available containers and options, see Install Knowledge Discovery using Containers.

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Version 26.1 | Last updated January 2026

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Product: Knowledge Discovery 26.1

Topic Title: Knowledge Discovery Installation and Setup