# ES on windows without admin permissions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 16, 2014, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-on-windows-without-admin-permissions/19309 "2014-08-16T06:40:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eduardo\_Avaria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/57b2e6/32.png) [@Eduardo\_Avaria](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eduardo_Avaria)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 6:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-on-windows-without-admin-permissions/19309/1 "2014-08-16T06:40:59Z")
Hi, I want to setup a demo for my manager on ES with production data (from the mainframe). I don't have admin rights on my machine and production data is sensitive, so if I load it in a server elsewhere the whole department may be in trouble. Is there any way that I can mount a portable server, add some plugins and load some data for making some graphs and visual reporting on my non admin laptop? Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-on-windows-without-admin-permissions/19309/2 "2014-08-16T09:06:09Z")
As long as you have Java installed, I think this should work. Do you have any trouble so far? -- David 馃槈 Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > Le 16 ao没t 2014 脿 08:40, Eduardo Avaria [eavaria@gmail.com](mailto:eavaria@gmail.com) a 茅crit : > > Hi, I want to setup a demo for my manager on ES with production data (from the mainframe). I don't have admin rights on my machine and production data is sensitive, so if I load it in a server elsewhere the whole department may be in trouble. > > ## Is there any way that I can mount a portable server, add some plugins and load some data for making some graphs and visual reporting on my non admin laptop? Thanks. > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/C434A1C6-1D6F-4FAF-8316-CC0774F1FE2C%40pilato.fr](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/C434A1C6-1D6F-4FAF-8316-CC0774F1FE2C%40pilato.fr). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Eduardo\_Avaria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/57b2e6/32.png) [@Eduardo\_Avaria](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eduardo_Avaria)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-on-windows-without-admin-permissions/19309/3 "2014-08-16T13:37:28Z")
I had no luck. I'm not even sure why the admin rights request is popping, but I can't get a server running. Maybe if there's a tut or something that make it run from a usb stick in minimalist mode it could work, but I couldn't find such thing. On Saturday, 16 August 2014 05:06:36 UTC-4, David Pilato wrote: > As long as you have Java installed, I think this should work. > Do you have any trouble so far? > > -- > David 馃槈 > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > > Le 16 ao没t 2014 脿 08:40, Eduardo Avaria \<[eav...@gmail.com](mailto:eav...@gmail.com) \\> > a 茅crit : > > Hi, I want to setup a demo for my manager on ES with production data (from > the mainframe). I don't have admin rights on my machine and production data > is sensitive, so if I load it in a server elsewhere the whole department > may be in trouble. > > Is there any way that I can mount a portable server, add some plugins and > load some data for making some graphs and visual reporting on my non admin > laptop? > Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com) \. > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c22cae26-7a54-4407-b41c-df473b57ae46%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c22cae26-7a54-4407-b41c-df473b57ae46%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-on-windows-without-admin-permissions/19309/4 "2014-08-16T14:30:08Z")
Could you explain more "What" is not working? Any message when you launch elasticsearch? May be all network ports are blocked? You could also think of doing something on a cloud instance or personnal computer ? -- David 馃槈 Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > Le 16 ao没t 2014 脿 15:37, Eduardo Avaria [eavaria@gmail.com](mailto:eavaria@gmail.com) a 茅crit : > > I had no luck. I'm not even sure why the admin rights request is popping, but I can't get a server running. Maybe if there's a tut or something that make it run from a usb stick in minimalist mode it could work, but I couldn't find such thing. > > > On Saturday, 16 August 2014 05:06:36 UTC-4, David Pilato wrote: > > As long as you have Java installed, I think this should work. > > Do you have any trouble so far? > > > > -- > > David 馃槈 > > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > > > > > Le 16 ao没t 2014 脿 08:40, Eduardo Avaria [eav...@gmail.com](mailto:eav...@gmail.com) a 茅crit : > > > > > > Hi, I want to setup a demo for my manager on ES with production data (from the mainframe). I don't have admin rights on my machine and production data is sensitive, so if I load it in a server elsewhere the whole department may be in trouble. > > > > > > ## Is there any way that I can mount a portable server, add some plugins and load some data for making some graphs and visual reporting on my non admin laptop? Thanks. > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com). > > > To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com). > > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c22cae26-7a54-4407-b41c-df473b57ae46%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c22cae26-7a54-4407-b41c-df473b57ae46%40googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/F5737FB2-9E31-4213-8F05-233901070632%40pilato.fr](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/F5737FB2-9E31-4213-8F05-233901070632%40pilato.fr). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Eduardo\_Avaria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/57b2e6/32.png) [@Eduardo\_Avaria](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eduardo_Avaria)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 2:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-on-windows-without-admin-permissions/19309/5 "2014-08-16T14:42:17Z")
I'll investigate further. The enter admin password screen pops up when executing it in any way. I believe it has to do with opening ports for listening. That's why I thought that a portable usb stick version should deal with it, maybe there's or a local only mode .bat file? The thing is that loading company's data on external systems can bring unwanted attention to me, and getting clearance for that is not easy. The more sophisticated the attempt, the more trouble we can get. Probably creating a dummy file on a personal server is the best idea if I can't run it locally. On Saturday, 16 August 2014 10:30:30 UTC-4, David Pilato wrote: > Could you explain more "What" is not working? > Any message when you launch elasticsearch? > May be all network ports are blocked? > > You could also think of doing something on a cloud instance or personnal > computer ? > > -- > David 馃槈 > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > > Le 16 ao没t 2014 脿 15:37, Eduardo Avaria \<[eav...@gmail.com](mailto:eav...@gmail.com) \\> > a 茅crit : > > I had no luck. I'm not even sure why the admin rights request is popping, > but I can't get a server running. Maybe if there's a tut or something that > make it run from a usb stick in minimalist mode it could work, but I > couldn't find such thing. > > On Saturday, 16 August 2014 05:06:36 UTC-4, David Pilato wrote: > > > As long as you have Java installed, I think this should work. > > Do you have any trouble so far? > > > > -- > > David 馃槈 > > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > > > > Le 16 ao没t 2014 脿 08:40, Eduardo Avaria [eav...@gmail.com](mailto:eav...@gmail.com) a 茅crit : > > > > Hi, I want to setup a demo for my manager on ES with production data > > (from the mainframe). I don't have admin rights on my machine and > > production data is sensitive, so if I load it in a server elsewhere the > > whole department may be in trouble. > > > > Is there any way that I can mount a portable server, add some plugins and > > load some data for making some graphs and visual reporting on my non admin > > laptop? > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "elasticsearch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com). > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com) > > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > > . > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "elasticsearch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com) \. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c22cae26-7a54-4407-b41c-df473b57ae46%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c22cae26-7a54-4407-b41c-df473b57ae46%40googlegroups.com) > > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c22cae26-7a54-4407-b41c-df473b57ae46%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c22cae26-7a54-4407-b41c-df473b57ae46%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > > . > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/49a6458b-9509-4dd0-bfee-05a7eb17ef4d%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/49a6458b-9509-4dd0-bfee-05a7eb17ef4d%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-on-windows-without-admin-permissions/19309/6 "2014-08-16T14:51:51Z")
The problem with local is that you won't be able to connect to your instance. I'm not sure about what you can show to your manager in that condition. USB stick? Are you able to mount it on your machine? May be you could start and run a Linux from USB? But I guess your BIOS is password protected and that you are not allowed to do that... -- David 馃槈 Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > Le 16 ao没t 2014 脿 16:42, Eduardo Avaria [eavaria@gmail.com](mailto:eavaria@gmail.com) a 茅crit : > > I'll investigate further. The enter admin password screen pops up when executing it in any way. I believe it has to do with opening ports for listening. That's why I thought that a portable usb stick version should deal with it, maybe there's or a local only mode .bat file? > > The thing is that loading company's data on external systems can bring unwanted attention to me, and getting clearance for that is not easy. The more sophisticated the attempt, the more trouble we can get. Probably creating a dummy file on a personal server is the best idea if I can't run it locally. > > > On Saturday, 16 August 2014 10:30:30 UTC-4, David Pilato wrote: > > Could you explain more "What" is not working? > > Any message when you launch elasticsearch? > > May be all network ports are blocked? > > > > You could also think of doing something on a cloud instance or personnal computer ? > > > > -- > > David 馃槈 > > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > > > > > Le 16 ao没t 2014 脿 15:37, Eduardo Avaria [eav...@gmail.com](mailto:eav...@gmail.com) a 茅crit : > > > > > > I had no luck. I'm not even sure why the admin rights request is popping, but I can't get a server running. Maybe if there's a tut or something that make it run from a usb stick in minimalist mode it could work, but I couldn't find such thing. > > > > > > > On Saturday, 16 August 2014 05:06:36 UTC-4, David Pilato wrote: > > > > As long as you have Java installed, I think this should work. > > > > Do you have any trouble so far? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > David 馃槈 > > > > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > > > > > > > > > Le 16 ao没t 2014 脿 08:40, Eduardo Avaria [eav...@gmail.com](mailto:eav...@gmail.com) a 茅crit : > > > > > > > > > > Hi, I want to setup a demo for my manager on ES with production data (from the mainframe). I don't have admin rights on my machine and production data is sensitive, so if I load it in a server elsewhere the whole department may be in trouble. > > > > > > > > > > ## Is there any way that I can mount a portable server, add some plugins and load some data for making some graphs and visual reporting on my non admin laptop? Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com). > > > > > To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cef82146-20da-4e1c-9e3a-f03263eef83d%40googlegroups.com). > > > > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com). > > > To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c22cae26-7a54-4407-b41c-df473b57ae46%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/c22cae26-7a54-4407-b41c-df473b57ae46%40googlegroups.com). > > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/49a6458b-9509-4dd0-bfee-05a7eb17ef4d%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/49a6458b-9509-4dd0-bfee-05a7eb17ef4d%40googlegroups.com). > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/D31B30D0-7BDF-475C-A455-61B6BCB34497%40pilato.fr](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/D31B30D0-7BDF-475C-A455-61B6BCB34497%40pilato.fr). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![John\_Ogden](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/john_ogden/32/1331_2.png) [@John\_Ogden](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/John_Ogden)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-on-windows-without-admin-permissions/19309/7 "2014-08-17T16:19:12Z")
Odd - I've had ES 1.1 with logstash 1.3 running on an XP machine with no admin rights Was only connecting to it locally though On Saturday, 16 August 2014 07:40:59 UTC+1, Eduardo Avaria wrote: > Hi, I want to setup a demo for my manager on ES with production data (from > the mainframe). I don't have admin rights on my machine and production data > is sensitive, so if I load it in a server elsewhere the whole department > may be in trouble. > > Is there any way that I can mount a portable server, add some plugins and > load some data for making some graphs and visual reporting on my non admin > laptop? > Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/0a59e57e-8b53-4f24-9d67-769cc15d42bb%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/0a59e57e-8b53-4f24-9d67-769cc15d42bb%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-on-windows-without-admin-permissions/19309/8 "2017-07-06T01:08:07Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:08am UTC