Steps to install IDS on Rocky Linux 9.7
Starting from a fresh VM installed via Rocky-9.7-x86_64-minimal.iso

 

Install the required pre-requisites Java8 and Postgres

sudo dnf install java-1.8.0-openjdk postgresql-server postgresql-contrib

Postgres setup

Post installation setup recommended by https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/
 

sudo postgresql-setup --initdb

Setup MD5 auth for local connections

Edit this file: /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
In the section for IPv4 local connections change the last value from peer → md5
 

# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            md5

Enable and start the postgres service

sudo systemctl enable postgresql.service
sudo systemctl start postgresql.service

Create and initialize the IDS database

sudo su -c "psql -c \"CREATE ROLE identity LOGIN PASSWORD 'identity' NOSUPERUSER INHERIT CREATEDB NOCREATEROLE NOREPLICATION;\"" postgres
sudo su -c "psql -c \"CREATE DATABASE identity WITH OWNER = identity ENCODING = 'UTF8' TEMPLATE = template0 TABLESPACE = pg_default CONNECTION LIMIT = -1;\"" postgres
sudo su -c "psql -c \"CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS hstore;\" identity" postgres

Firewall setup

Allow port 8443 through the firewall
 

sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=8443/tcp --permanent
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

IDS installation

Unzip the contents of the identity-server zip file to a folder on the machine. 
We typically use: /opt/pi/identity-server
 

sudo mkdir -p /opt/pi/identity-server
sudo unzip identity-server-*.zip -d /opt/pi/identity-server

Go into the service bin directory and execute the installDaemon.sh command to install it as a service
 

cd /opt/pi/identity-server/service/bin
sudo chmod +x *.sh
sudo ./installDaemon.sh 

After that you should be able to start the service via:
 

sudo systemctl start pi-identity-server

The service runs via https at port 8443. You should be able to access the web interface from a browser by going to:
 

https://<ip-address>:8443

The default credentials are 
 

• Username: admin
• Password: password

Once you connect you should see a first run setup screen that takes you through configuring and licensing the server.
Use the provided the license key and activation token.