Pentaho 3 7 0 Linux and MySQL

Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite 3.7A guide to getting started with MySQL 5.x and Linux


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Table of ContentsTable of Contents .............................................................................................................. 2Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 3

License ............................................................................................................................ 3Donate ............................................................................................................................. 3You can donate to my PayPal account by clicking here. ................................................. 3About ............................................................................................................................... 3The Community ............................................................................................................... 3Thanks............................................................................................................................. 4

Getting Started .................................................................................................................. 5Installing and Configuring Java ....................................................................................... 5Installing and Configuring MySQL 5.x Server.................................................................. 5Deploying the Platform .................................................................................................... 6

Packaged Apache-Tomcat Server ............................................................................... 6Existing Apache-Tomcat Server .................................................................................. 6

MySQL Java Connector ........................................................................................... 7webapps ................................................................................................................... 7

SQL Script Pack .............................................................................................................. 8Configuring the Databases............................................................................................... 9

Extract the MySQL 5.x SQL Script Pack ......................................................................... 9Load the SQL scripts ....................................................................................................... 9

Configuring JDBC Security ............................................................................................ 11applicationContext-spring-security-jdbc.xml .............................................................. 11applicationContext-spring-security-hibernate.properties............................................ 11hibernate-settings.xml ................................................................................................ 12mysql5.hibernate.cfg.xml (optional) ........................................................................... 12

Configuring Hibernate and Quartz................................................................................. 13Configuring Apache-Tomcat Server.............................................................................. 15

solution-path .............................................................................................................. 15fully-qualified-server-url.............................................................................................. 15Disable HSQL Database Startup ............................................................................... 16TrustedIpAddrs........................................................................................................... 16Other Parameters....................................................................................................... 17

Configuring SMTP (mail server)..................................................................................... 18Configuring Publishing................................................................................................... 20Configuring the Administration Console ...................................................................... 21Starting the Business Intelligence Platform................................................................. 22Starting the Administration Console............................................................................. 25


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Introduction

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

Donate

This tutorial is accessed by thousands on a monthly basis, from most of the feedback many found itextremely helpful! But contrary to belief I do not work for Pentaho and all of this work is voluntary, soeven $1 can help me with producing bigger and better tutorials!

You can donate to my PayPal account by clicking here.

About

To use this guide It is assumed that readers have intermediate to advanced knowledge in their setup ofchoice and basic knowledge of Pentaho (although it is not needed). The following operating systems anddatabases are supported:

• Windows◦ MySQL 5.x◦ PostgreSQL 8.x.x◦ Oracle 10g & 11g

• Linux *◦ MySQL 5.x *◦ PostgreSQL 8.x.x◦ Oracle 10g & 11g

* This tutorial is for Linux and MySQL 5.x setup.

The Community

Don't forget about the other hardworking projects which are part of the Pentaho community and alsodeserve a donation:

PAT (Pentaho Analysis Tool)An alternative to Pentaho's current OLAP analyser tool, JPivot.

CDF (Community Dashboard Framework)A framework for building dashboards within Pentaho's Business Intelligence Server User Console.

CBF (Community Build Framework)Is an ant build.xml file script and alternate way to setup and deploy Pentaho based applications


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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=10967601

http://code.google.com/p/pentahoanalysistool/

http://code.google.com/p/pentaho-cdf/

http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/COM/CBF+-+Community+Build+Framework

CDA (Community Data Access)A data access layer for CDF (Community Dashboard Framework).

Thanks

Thanks to the following blogs, individuals, companies and groups:

##pentaho & ##pentaho.patIRC channels found on Freenode (Pentaho and Pentaho PAT).

Pentaho Wiki & Pentaho ForumsThe first place any new user to Pentaho should look.

Open Source Business IntelligenceProvided a working copy of the sample database for MySQL.

BizcubedProvided a working copy of the sample database for PostgreSQL - they are also Australian!

Pentaho Solutions: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQLA book by Roland and Jos van Dongen.


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http://pedroalves-bi.blogspot.com/2010/01/cda-community-data-access.html

http://code.google.com/p/pentaho-cdf/

http://freenode.net/

http://wiki.pentaho.com/

http://www.pentaho.com/forums

http://osbi.nl

http://www.bizcubed.com.au/

http://www.amazon.com/Pentaho-Solutions-Business-Intelligence-Warehousing/dp/0470484322

Getting Started

Installing and Configuring Java

The Pentaho BI Platform requires a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) to be installed on your PC or server. Tocheck if Java is already installed issue the following command (seen in bold) at the terminal prompt:

user@terminal:~# java -versionjava version "1.6.0_13"Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_13-b03)Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 11.3-b02, mixed mode, sharing)

If a similar output (seen above) is displayed Java is already installed. If not, to install Java on Linux issuethe following commands (seen in bold):

Ubuntuuser@terminal:~# sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre

Fedorauser@terminal:~# sudo su install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre

The next step is to check if the JAVA_HOME environment variable is setup correctly, issue the followingcommand (seen in bold) at the terminal prompt:

user@terminal:~# echo $JAVA_HOME/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

If a similar output (seen above) is displayed the JAVA_HOME environment variable is already setup. Tosetup the JAVA_HOME environment variable add this line to the bottom of the /etc/environment file:

JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun"

The CATALINA_OPTS environment variable should also be set to tell the Apache-Tomcat server to usemore than the default memory, to do this also add the following line to the bottom of the /etc/environment file:

CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx768m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000"

From now on every time the PC or server is started/restarted the JAVA_HOME and CATALINA_OPTSenvironment variables will be set automatically.

Installing and Configuring MySQL 5.x Server

Click here for guides for Ubuntu and Fedora.


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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/install-mysql-server-5-on-ubuntu/

http://fedorasolved.org/Members/opsec/installing-configuring-mysql-server

Deploying the Platform

You are able to deploy the platform in many different ways but in this guide I will explain how to deploy itwith the packaged Apache-Tomcat server (comes with the Pentaho BI Server installation file) or with anexisting Apache-Tomcat server.

Packaged Apache-Tomcat Server

You will need to first download the pentaho-ce-3.7.x.stable.tar.gz file from the PentahoSourceforge projects page - this file contains all the files/packages needed for setting up our platform.After downloading extract its contents into a directory you would like to store the Pentaho BI Server - inthis example I have chosen /opt/pentaho/.

To extract the file and move it the /opt/pentaho/ directory issue the following commands (seen inbold) at the terminal prompt:

user@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo tar xvzf pentaho-ce-3.7.0.stable.tar.gzuser@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo mkdir /opt/pentahouser@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo mv ./biserver-ce /opt/pentahouser@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo mv ./administration-console /opt/pentaho

The following directories should be visible after you have extracted the TAR file and moved its contents:

opt/|-- pentaho| |-- adminstration-console| |-- biserver-ce

Existing Apache-Tomcat Server

If you would like to deploy the Pentaho BI Platform on an existing Apache-Tomcat server first extract thecontents of the pentaho-ce-3.7.x.stable.tar.gz file found on the Pentaho Sourceforge projectspage. After downloading extract its contents into a directory you would like to store the Pentaho BI Server- in this example I have chosen /opt/pentaho/.

To extract the file and move it the /opt/pentaho/ directory issue the following commands (seen inbold) at the terminal prompt:

user@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo tar xvzf pentaho-ce-3.7.0.stable.tar.gzuser@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo mkdir /opt/pentahouser@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo mv ./biserver-ce /opt/pentahouser@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo mv ./administration-console /opt/pentaho

The following directories should be visible after you have extracted the TAR file and moved its contents:


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http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/




opt/|-- pentaho| |-- adminstration-console| |-- biserver-ce| |-- pentaho-solutions| |-- tomcat| |-- common| `-- lib| `-- mysql-connector-java-5.0.7.jar (optional)| |-- webapps| `-- pentaho| `-- pentaho-styles| `-- sw-styles

The files and directories in bold (seen above) will need to be moved to your existing Apache-Tomcatinstallation.

MySQL Java Connector

If you already have Apache-Tomcat working with MySQL then you won't need to copy the mysql-connector-java-5.0.7.jar file to your tomcat's /common/lib directory. If not to copy the mysql-connector-java-5.0.7.jar issue the following command (in bold) at the terminal prompt:

Ubuntuuser@terminal:~#/ sudo cp /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat/common/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.0.7.jar /opt/tomcat/common/lib

Fedorauser@terminal:~#/ su cp /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat/common/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.0.7.jar /opt/tomcat/common/lib

webapps

You will need to copy all the directories under the /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat/webapps/directory to the webapps/ directory under your existing Apache-Tomcat installation.

To do so make sure you have stopped your Apache-Tomcat server then issue the following command (inbold) at the terminal prompt:

Ubuntuuser@terminal:~#/ sudo cp /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat/webapps /opt/tomcat/

Fedorauser@terminal:~#/ su cp /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat/webapps /opt/tomcat/

Where /opt/tomcat/webapps/ is the location of your Apache-Tomcat webapps directory. You havejust moved all the webapps which are needed by the Pentaho BI Platform (sw-styles is optional).


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The last step is to move the pentaho-solutions directory into the /pentaho/ directory or any other locationwhich you would like to store all your pentaho solutions and configuration files. To move the pentaho-solutions folder to the pentaho directory issue the following command (in bold) at the terminal prompt:

Ubuntuuser@terminal:~#/ sudo mv /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/pentaho-solutions/opt/pentaho/

Fedorauser@terminal:~#/ su mv /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/pentaho-solutions /opt/pentaho/

One more step will need to be done to make sure Pentaho knows the new location of the pentaho-solutions directory which will be covered in the "Configuring Apache-Tomcat" section.

The new structure of the pentaho-solutions and existing Apache-Tomcat directory looks like this:

opt/| |-- pentaho| `-- pentaho-solutions| |-- tomcat| `-- webapps

You can now safely remove any other files that came with the original Pentaho BI Platform (only underthe biserver-ce\ folder).

SQL Script Pack

A SQL Script Pack is a set off SQL scripts which will configure all the necessary databases. To downloadthe SQL Script Pack for MySQL 5.x click here.


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http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B9Jmocc0fj_EN2MyZjc4ZjEtNzFkNC00NzIzLTljZTctZjIzZWQ1NjU3MzJk&hl=en

Configuring the Databases

Extract the MySQL 5.x SQL Script Pack

After downloading the SQL Script Pack for MySQL 5.x you will need to extract the files into a temporarylocation. These are the five SQL scripts which should be visible after the pack has been extracted:

1_create_repository_mysql.sqlCreates the Hibernate database

2_create_quartz_mysql.sqlCreates the Quartz database

3_create_sample_datasource_mysql.sqlLoads the sample data data source into the Hibernate database

4_load_sample_users_mysql.sqlCreates all the sample users and roles into the Hibernate database

5_sample_data_mysql.sqlCreates the sample data database

You must load the above scripts in the order they are listed. Load these SQL scripts using yourfavourite MySQL front end tool i.e. MySQL console, Navicat Lite, phpMyAdmin etc (in this section I willshow you how to load the SQL scripts using the MySQL console).

Load the SQL scripts

Before you start make sure that you place all your SQL scripts in the directory which you will be logginginto the MySQL console, in this example that is /home/pentaho/tmp/.

Launch a terminal instance and login into MySQL:

user@terminal:/opt/biserver-ce/tmp# mysql -u [your_username] -p[your_password]

Issue the following commands found in bold one after the other:

mysql> source 1_create_repository_mysql.sql;...outputmysql> source 2_create_quartz_mysql.sql;...outputmysql> source 3_create_sample_datasource_mysql.sql;...outputmysql> source 4_load_sample_users_mysql.sql;...outputmysql> source 5_sample_data_mysql.sql;...output

Now run the following command (in bold) to see if you have successfully created the hibernate,quartz and sampledata databases:


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mysql> show databases;

Just for reference here are the databases and tables which should of been created after loading thecontents of the MySQL 5.x SQL Script pack:

• hibernate*◦ authorities◦ datasource◦ granted_authorities◦ users

• quartz◦ qrtz_blob_triggers◦ qrtz_calendars◦ qrtz_cron_triggers◦ qrtz_fired_triggers◦ qrtz_job_details◦ qrtz_job_listeners◦ qrtz_locks◦ qrtz_paused_trigger_grps◦ qrtz_scheduler_state◦ qrtz_simple_triggers◦ qrtz_trigger_listeners◦ qrtz_triggers

• sampledata◦ customer_w_ter◦ customers◦ department_managers◦ dim_time◦ employees◦ offices◦ orderdetails◦ orderfact◦ orders◦ payments◦ products◦ quadrant_actuals◦ trial_balance

* Hibernate will create new tables into the hibernate database after Pentaho BI Platform has started for the first time.

NOTE↴↴If you have problems when running the 5_sample_data_mysql.sql scripts with timestampsyou will need to replace all occurances of 00.000000000 with 00.000000 - this is an issue withMySQL timezones and timestamps.


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Configuring JDBC SecurityThis section describes how to configure the Pentaho BI Platform JDBC security to use a MySQL server,this means the Pentaho BI Platform will now point to the hibernate database on the MySQL serverinstead of the packaged HSQL database.

NOTE↴↴If you already have a user which you prefer to have access to the hibernate database instead ofthe default user hibuser, you will need to modify all occurances of hibuser/password in thissection.

applicationContext-spring-security-jdbc.xml

This file is located under the pentaho-solutions/system/ directory.

Once the file has opened locate this snippet of code:

<bean id="dataSource"class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource"><property name="driverClassName" value="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver" /><property name="url"value="jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:9001/hibernate" /><property name="username" value="hibuser" /><property name="password" value="password" /></bean>

Make changes to the highlighted sections so that the section of code looks similar to this:

<bean id="dataSource"class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource"><property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" /><property name="url"value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hibernate" /><property name="username" value="hibuser" /><property name="password" value="password" /></bean>

applicationContext-spring-security-hibernate.properties

This file is located under the pentaho-solutions/system/ directory.



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jdbc.driver=org.hsqldb.jdbcDriverjdbc.url=jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:9001/hibernatejdbc.username=hibuserjdbc.password=passwordhibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect


jdbc.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driverjdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hibernatejdbc.username=hibuserjdbc.password=passwordhibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect

hibernate-settings.xml

This file is located under the pentaho-solutions/system/hibernate/ directory.


<config-file>system/hibernate/hsql.hibernate.cfg.xml</config-file>

Make changes to the highlighted section so that the section of code looks similar to this:

<config-file>system/hibernate/mysql5.hibernate.cfg.xml</config-file>

mysql5.hibernate.cfg.xml (optional)

This file is located under the pentaho-solutions/system/hibernate/ directory.

You do not need to make any changes to this file if you would like to use the default user hibuser (whichwas created with the 4_load_sample_users_mysql.sql file). However, if you would like to specifyyour own user find and change the following two lines of code:

<property name="connection.username">hibuser</property><property name="connection.password">password</property>

Make changes to the highlighted sections to a username and password of your choice.


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Configuring Hibernate and QuartzHibernate and Quartz need to specifically use the hibernate and quartz databases which werecreated on the MySQL server. To do so modifications need to be made to the context.xml file which islocated in the /tomcat/webapps/pentaho/META-INF/ directory.

NOTE↴↴If you already have a user which you prefer to have access the hibernate database instead ofthe default user hibuser, you will need to modify all occurances of hibuser/password in thissection.This also applies to the pentaho_user/password used to connect to the Quartzdatabase.

Once the file has opened the following piece of code should be visible:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Context path="/pentaho" docbase="webapps/pentaho/"><Resource name="jdbc/Hibernate" auth="Container"type="javax.sql.DataSource"factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"maxActive="20" maxIdle="5"maxWait="10000" username="hibuser" password="password"driverClassName="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"url="jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost/hibernate"validationQuery="select count(*) fromINFORMATION_SCHEMA.SYSTEM_SEQUENCES" /><Resource name="jdbc/Quartz" auth="Container"type="javax.sql.DataSource"factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"maxActive="20" maxIdle="5"maxWait="10000" username="pentaho_user" password="password"driverClassName="org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"url="jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost/quartz"validationQuery="select count(*) fromINFORMATION_SCHEMA.SYSTEM_SEQUENCES"/></Context>


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Context path="/pentaho" docbase="webapps/pentaho/"><Resource name="jdbc/Hibernate" auth="Container"type="javax.sql.DataSource"factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"maxActive="20" maxIdle="5"maxWait="10000" username="hibuser" password="password"driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hibernate"validationQuery="select 1" />


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<Resource name="jdbc/Quartz" auth="Container"type="javax.sql.DataSource"factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"maxActive="20" maxIdle="5"maxWait="10000" username="pentaho_user" password="password"driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/quartz"validationQuery="select 1"/></Context>


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Configuring Apache-Tomcat ServerTo configure the settings of the Apache-Tomcat server for your Pentaho BI Platform most of the changesare done inside the web.xml file which is located under the /tomcat/webapps/pentaho/WEB_INF/directory. You are able to configure the following items (and more) for the Pentaho BI Platform:

•• pentaho-solutions location• URL• Disable HSQL database startup• TrustedIpAddrs (optional - for the administration console and if you are accessing the server

remotely)

If you are happy with the following settings for your Pentaho BI Platform server you will not need to makeany changes to this file:

• pentaho-solutions/ directory located under the /opt/biserver-ce/ directory• Visit http://localhost:8080/pentaho URL to launch the Pentaho BI Platform

solution-path

The solution-path parameter lets the Pentaho BI Platform know where to locatethe pentaho-solutions directory. By default this is set to /opt/biserver-ce/pentaho/ directory.

If you have decided to use an existing Apache-Tomcat server (or have moved your pentaho-solutions directory) you will need to point this to where you have placed your pentaho-solutionsdirectory. In this example my pentaho-solutions directory is under the /opt/pentaho/ directory,now my solution-path code snippet looks like this:

<context-param><param-name>solution-path</param-name><param-value>/opt/pentaho/pentaho-solutions/</param-value>

</context-param>

fully-qualified-server-url

If you are happy with visiting the URL http://localhost:8080/pentaho to access Pentaho's BI Platform youwill not need to change this parameter, however if you would like others to access the site (remotely or ona network) you will need to make changes to this parameter.

Open up the file and locate this line of code:

<param-value>http://localhost:8080/pentaho/</param-value>

Make changes to the highlighted section to your PC or server's domain or IP address so it looks similar tothis:


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http://localhost:8080/pentaho


<param-value>http://www.prashantraju.com:8080/pentaho/</param-value>or<param-value>http://192.168.1.10:8080/pentaho/</param-value>

Disable HSQL Database Startup

By default with 3.7 HSQL database starts up automatically - to prevent this from happening locate thefollowing snippets of code:

<context-param><param-name>hsqldb-databases</param-name><param-value>sampledata@../../data/hsqldb/sampledata,hibernate@../../data/hsqldb/hibernate,quartz@../../data/hsqldb/quartz</param-value></context-param>

<listener><listener-class>org.pentaho.platform.web.http.context.HsqldbStartupListener</listener-class></listener>

You can either remove the above snippets or comment it out, if you are commenting it out it will looksimilar to this:



TrustedIpAddrs

If you want to access your Tomcat-Apache server remotely - so in the above step you have not specifiedlocalhost or 127.0.0.1 for the base-url parameter - you will need to add your Tomcat-Apacheserver's IP address to this list.

Open up the file and locate this line of code:

<param-name>TrustedIpAddrs</param-name><param-value>127.0.0.1</param-value>


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Make changes to the highlighted section add your PC or server's domain or IP address so it looks similarto this:

<param-name>TrustedIpAddrs</param-name><param-value>127.0.0.1,[your_ip_address]</param-value>

This will allow the Pentaho Administration Console to 'ping' the server to see if it is up or down - you donot need to do this if you are hosting your server locally.

Other Parameters

You can also change the local language and country under the web.xml file, the changes to theseparameters are self explanatory.


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Configuring SMTP (mail server)To configure the Pentaho BI Platform to use a SMTP server (mail server) to use for emailing reports etc.you will need to make modifications to the /pentaho-solutions/system/smtp-email/email_config.xml file.

Here are the available parameters that can be configured for SMTP support:

• mail.smtp.host◦ This is the address of your SMTP email server for sending email e.g. smtp.gmail.com

• mail.smtp.port◦ This is the port of your SMTP email server e.g. for GMail this is 587

• mail.transport.protocol◦ The transport for accessing the email server. Usually this is smtp e.g. for GMail this issmtps

• mail.smtp.starttls.enable◦ If you SMTP server uses TTLS authentication set this to true e.g. for GMail this is true

• mail.smtp.auth◦ Set to true if the email server requires the sender to authenticate

• mail.smtp.ssl◦ This is true if the email server requires an SSL connection e.g. for GMail this is true

• mail.debug◦ Output debug information from the JavaMail API

• mail.pop3◦ Not being used.

• mail.from.default◦ The from address that emails from the Pentaho BI Platform e.g.

[email protected]• mail.userid

◦ The userid that is used when authenticating with the SMTP server, mail.smtp.authmust be set to true.

• mail.password◦ The password that is used when authenticating with the SMTP server, mail.smtp.auth

must be set to true.

Here is an example of a smtp-email.xml file configured for GMail:

<email-smtp><properties>

<mail.smtp.host>smtp.gmail.com</mail.smtp.host><mail.smtp.port>587</mail.smtp.port><mail.transport.protocol>smtps</mail.transport.protocol><mail.smtp.starttls.enable>true</mail.smtp.starttls.enable><mail.smtp.auth>true</mail.smtp.auth><mail.smtp.ssl>true</mail.smtp.ssl><mail.smtp.quitwait>false</mail.smtp.quitwait>

</properties><mail.pop3></mail.pop3><mail.from.default>[email protected]</mail.from.default>


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<mail.userid>[email protected]</mail.userid><mail.password>password</mail.password>

</email-smtp>


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Configuring PublishingBy default publishing is not enabled, to enable it you will need to specify a password which will need to beused when publishing. To get started you will need to edit the publisher_config.xml file locatedunder the /pentaho-solutions/system/ directory, once open locate the following snippet of code:

<publisher-config><publisher-password></publisher-password></publisher-config>

Enter a password between the publisher-password tags (this password will be the same for all users)so the snippet of code looks similar to the example below (in this example the publisher password ispublishthis):

<publisher-config><publisher-password>publishthis</publisher-password></publisher-config>

From now on when any user tries to publish content to Pentaho BI Platform they will need to specify thispassword.


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Configuring the Administration ConsoleBy default no configuration is needed when setting up Pentaho's Administration Console (PAC) withMySQL 5.x.


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Starting the Business Intelligence PlatformThe Pentaho BI Platform is a webapp on the Apache-Tomcat server. To start Apache-Tomcat you willneed to run the startup.sh file which is located under the /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat/bin folder:

user@terminal:/opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat/bin# startup.shUsing CATALINA_BASE: /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcatUsing CATALINA_HOME: /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcatUsing CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat/tempUsing JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

Now you should be able to visit http://localhost:8080/pentaho orhttp://[your_domain_or_ip]:8080/pentaho. If the Pentaho BI Platform has started successfullyyou should see the following welcome screen:


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After logging in try and run a sample report from the Steel Wheels solution folder:


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Starting the Administration ConsoleTo start the Administration Console you will need to run the start-pac.sh file which is located underthe opt/pentaho/administration-console/ folder:

user@terminal:/opt/pentaho/administration-console# start-pac.shDEBUG: Using JAVA_HOMEDEBUG: _PENTAHO_JAVA_HOME=/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/DEBUG: _PENTAHO_JAVA=/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/2010-01-05 16:27:17.824::INFO: Logging to STDERR viaorg.mortbay.log.StdErrLog05/01/2010 4:27:18 PM org.pentaho.pac.server.JettyServer startServerINFO: Console is starting2010-01-05 16:27:18.118::INFO: jetty-6.1.22010-01-05 16:27:38.672::INFO: Started SocketConnector @ 0.0.0.0:809905/01/2010 4:27:38 PM org.pentaho.pac.server.JettyServer startServerINFO: Console is now started. It can be accessed usinghttp://D119940:8099 or http://161.117.117.40:8099

Now you should be able to visit http://localhost:8099/ or the other two address's specified in your output(highlighted above). You will be prompted for a Username and Password which by default are "admin"and "password". If you have successfully started and logged into the administration console you shouldsee the following welcome screen:


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http://localhost:8099/


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