I am using win7 and have successfully tested Elasticsearch and FScrawler although a complete novice
I want to transfer the system to another computer that is an underused mailserver; and thus they need to start at different times (i.e. start ES first then FScrawler. kibana) in the background so they don't take resource from the mail-server
FSCrawler can not work if elasticsearch is not running. So you need both.
It's easy to make FSCrawler run only once though with the --loop parameter. So you can start it in a shell script, wait that it exits then run another process like Kibana.
But I'd have elasticsearch running all time as a service.
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