Getting started with KHIKA

Introduction

When setting up and configuring KHIKA in your organisation network, you need to perform few steps and shall find this page helpful for the same. For more information on KHIKA components you can click here.

Provisioning the Virtual Appliance

KHIKA is installed as a Virtual Appliance on your organisation’s VMware platform. There is at least one KHIKA core app server VM. In addition, there can be optional collector nodes or KHIKA aggregator VMs, one at each location where the data sources are present. For more information refer to KHIKA Data Aggregator.

Download the KHIKA Virtual Appliance in the form of a .ova file on your VMware platform.

Pre requisites for KHIKA VM

We recommend following minimum hardware resources to be allocated to the KHIKA VMs for optimum performance.

KHIKA Central Server

CPU= 16 vCPU
Memory = 64GB
Disk1=500GB (for KHIKA Application, OS etc)
Disk1 = 2 TB (to begin with for storing KHIKA data.)
Network= Fast ethernet with static IP
OS: Bundled with KHIKA Virtual Appliance

KHIKA Aggregator

CPU= 16 vCPU
Memory = 32 GB
(to process incoming volume of data with high speed) Disk1= 500GB (for KHIKA Application, OS etc)
Disk1 = 1TB (to begin with for storing KHIKA data.)
Network= Fast ethernet with static IP
OS: Bundled with KHIKA Virtual Appliance

Before you boot the VM for the first time

Add a network interface to this VM so that we can connect using an IP address to this VM. Assign a static IP address to each VM. All the data sources and configurations done further will refer to the VMs using their IP address only. Any change in this, shall make all configurations ineffective and incoming data may stop due to the same.