Kyvos Manager Installation Guide

This documentation is for Kyvos 2026.8.x. To view documentation for other Kyvos versions, click here.

This documentation is for Kyvos 2026.8.x. To view documentation for other Kyvos versions, click here.

✅ Enterprise: AWS, Azure, GCP, and On-Premises

Overview

This section provides information about the software and hardware prerequisites for installing Kyvos Manager. It also gives information about the standard checks that must be performed before starting the installation.

Pre-installation Checklist for Kyvos Manager

Before you start installing Kyvos Manager, verify the following:

SELinux must be disabled.
Cluster hosts must have a working network name resolution system. DHCP server configured for DNS name resolution or /etc/hosts file must be configured correctly.
The user account from which the cluster is being deployed must have full access permissions on all the installation paths provided on Kyvos Manager.

On this page:

1 Overview
2 Pre-installation Checklist for Kyvos Manager
3 Configurations

Kyvos Manager Server Prerequisites

Operating System:
- Cloud:
  - CentOS 7.x, RHEL 7.x, and RHEL 8.x
- On-prem:
  - CentOS 7.x, RHEL 7.x and RHEL 8.x
  - Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
Memory: 6 GB RAM or more
Storage Space: 30 GB or more

Kyvos Manager Client Prerequisites

Kyvos Manager Client is the computer used to access the Web application. You can access the Kyvos Manager Client through Google Chrome 35 or above.

Cluster Nodes Prerequisites

Setting up cluster nodes if you are not a sudo user

The following prerequisites are required for all nodes.

Operating System:
- Cloud:
  - CentOS 7.x, RHEL 7.x,and RHEL 8.x
- On-prem:
  - CentOS 7.x, RHEL 7.x,and RHEL 8.x
  - Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
All nodes must have a user account with common login credentials
All the nodes used for cluster creation must have:
- list of commands
- SSH running (SSHD service)
Ensure that either the Iptables/firewall is disabled on each host of a cluster or the requisite ports should be accessible.
To disable Iptables/firewall, use the following commands on each host.

Host	Command

Host	Command
CentOS	service iptables save service iptables stop chkconfig iptables off
Ubuntu	ufw disable

For Kyvos Manager Node

To address the Log4j2 Vulnerabilities, ensure that the Kyvos Manager node has Zip command installed to allow class removal from jar files.

Installing Kyvos Manager

To install Kyvos Manager, perform the following steps.

Untar the KyvosManager<version>War_ux<architecture>.tar file using the following command.

tar -xvf KyvosManager<version>War_ux<architecture>.tar

This creates a folder named kyvosmanager_war containing three subfolders named: jre, kyvosmanager, and kyvosmanagerdata.

Configurations

Once you untar the Kyvos Manager bundle, perform the following configurations according to your bundle type.

Bundle Type	War

Bundle Type	War
Configuration File	setenv.sh
Location	($KM_HOME/kyvosmanager_war/kyvosmanager/bin/)
Path variables	Set absolute paths for the following variables, as shown in the examples. CATALINA_HOME: Should point to the kyvosmanager_war folder. Example: CATALINA_HOME=/data/kyvosmanager_war/kyvosmanager/ KM_HOME_DIR Should point to the kyvosmanager_war folder. Example: KM_HOME_DIR=/data/kyvosmanager_war/kyvosmanager/ KM_DATA_DIR: Should point to kyvosmanagerdata folder. Example: KM_DATA_DIR=/data/kyvosmanager_war/kyvosmanagerdata/ KM_CONF_DIR: Should point to the conf folder in the kyvosmanager folder. Example: KM_CONF_DIR=/data/kyvosmanager_war/kyvosmanager/conf/ JRE_HOME: Should point to the JRE folder in the kyvosmanager_war folder. Example: /data/kyvosmanager_war/jre/
Port	Update connector port value for HTTP connector in server.xml at kyvosmanager_war/kyvosmanger/conf/ location. Update the port value in setenv.sh file against the kyvos.manager.server.port property. Default: 8080