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Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite 3.6A guide to getting started with MySQL 5.x and Linux

Version 1.3.2

Modified on 17/06/2010

Modified by Prashant Raju

Notes Supports version 3.6

Version 1.3.1



Notes Added TrustedIpAddrs section

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Spelling and grammar fixes

Added descriptions to steps

Added common errors

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Added SMTP section

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Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite 3.6

A guide to getting started with MySQL 5.x and Linux

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Table of Contents

Table of Contents.............................................................................................................. 2

About ............................................................................................................................... 3

Donate ............................................................................................................................. 0The Community ............................................................................................................... 3

Thanks ............................................................................................................................. 3

Getting Started .................................................................................................................. 5

Installing and Configuring Java ....................................................................................... 5

Installing and Configuring MySQL 5.x Server.................................................................. 5

Deploying the Platform .................................................................................................... 6

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

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

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

webapps ................................................................................................................... 7

SQL Script Pack .............................................................................................................. 8

Configuring the Databases............................................................................................... 9

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

Load the SQL scripts ....................................................................................................... 9

Configuring JDBC Security............................................................................................11

applicationContext-spring-security-jdbc.xml ..............................................................11

applicationContext-spring-security-hibernate.properties............................................11

hibernate-settings.xml ................................................................................................ 12

mysql5.hibernate.cfg.xml (optional) ........................................................................... 12

Configuring Hibernate and Quartz................................................................................. 13

Configuring Apache-Tomcat Server..............................................................................15

solution-path .............................................................................................................. 15

base-url ...................................................................................................................... 15

TrustedIpAddrs........................................................................................................... 16

Other Parameters....................................................................................................... 16Configuring SMTP (mail server)..................................................................................... 17

Configuring Publishing................................................................................................... 19

Configuring the Administration Console......................................................................20

Starting the Business Intelligence Platform................................................................. 21

Starting the Administration Console............................................................................. 24



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Introduction

About

To use this guide It is assumed that readers have intermediate to advancedknowledge in their setup of

choice 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 also

deserve 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

CDA (Community Data Access)

A data access layer forCDF (Community Dashboard Framework).

Thanks

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

##pentaho & ##pentaho.pat

IRC channels found on Freenode (Pentaho and Pentaho PAT).

Pentaho Wiki & Pentaho Forums

The first place any new user to Pentaho should look.

Open Source Business Intelligence

Provided a working copy of the sample database for MySQL.

Bizcubed



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

Pentaho Solutions: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL

A book by Roland and Jos van Dongen.



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Getting Started

Installing and Configuring Java

The Pentaho BI Platform requires a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) to be installed on your PC or server. To

check if Java is already installed issue the following command (seen in bold) at the terminal prompt:

user@terminal:~# java -version

java 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 issue

the following commands (seen in bold):

Ubuntu

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

Fedora

user@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 following

command (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. To

setup 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 use

more 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 forUbuntu and Fedora.



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Deploying the Platform

You are able to deploy the platform in many different ways but in this guide I will explain how to deploy it

with the packaged Apache-Tomcat server (comes with the Pentaho BI Server installation file) or with an

existing Apache-Tomcat server.

Packaged Apache-Tomcat Server

You will need to first download the pentaho-ce-3.6.x.stable.tar.gz file from the Pentaho

Sourceforge 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 - in

this example I have chosen /opt/pentaho/.

To extract the file and move it the /opt/pentaho/ directory issue the following commands (seen in

bold) at the terminal prompt:

user@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo tar xvzf pentaho-

ce-3.6.0.stable.tar.gzuser@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo mkdir /opt/pentahouser@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo mv ./biserver-ce /opt/pentaho

user@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 the

contents of the pentaho-ce-3.6.x.stable.tar.gz file found on the Pentaho Sourceforge projects

page. 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 in


user@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo tar xvzf pentaho-

ce-3.6.0.stable.tar.gzuser@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo mkdir /opt/pentahouser@terminal:/home/pentaho/tmp/# sudo mv ./biserver-ce /opt/pentaho

user@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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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-Tomcat

installation.

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:

Ubuntu

user@terminal:~#/ sudo cp /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat/common/lib/

mysql-connector-java-5.0.7.jar /opt/tomcat/common/lib

Fedora

user@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 (in


Ubuntu

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

tomcat/

Fedora

user@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 have

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The last step is to move the pentaho-solutions directory into the /pentaho/ directory or any other location

which 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:

Ubuntu

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

/opt/pentaho/

Fedora

user@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 under

the biserver-ce\ folder).

SQL Script Pack

A SQL Script Pack is a set off SQL scripts which will configure all the necessary databases. To download

the SQL Script Pack forMySQL 5.x click here.



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mysql> show databases;

Just for reference here are the databases and tables which should of been created after loading the

contents 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 the5_sample_data_mysql.sql scripts with timestamps

you will need to replace all occurances of00.000000000 with 00.000000 - this is an issue withMySQL timezones and timestamps.



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Configuring JDBC Security

This 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 server

instead of the packaged HSQL database.

NOTE

If you already have a user which you prefer to have access to thehibernate database instead of

the default userhibuser, you will need to modify all occurances ofhibuser/password in this

section.

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:

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

applicationContext-spring-security-hibernate.properties

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jdbc.driver=org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver

jdbc.url=jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost:9001/hibernate

jdbc.username=hibuser

jdbc.password=password

hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect


jdbc.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driverjdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hibernate

jdbc.username=hibuser

jdbc.password=password

hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect

hibernate-settings.xml

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


system/hibernate/hsql.hibernate.cfg.xml

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

system/hibernate/mysql5.hibernate.cfg.xml

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 userhibuser (which

was created with the 4_load_sample_users_mysql.sql file). However, if you would like to specify

your own user find and change the following two lines of code:

hibuser

password

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



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Configuring Hibernate and Quartz

Hibernate and Quartz need to specifically use the hibernate and quartz databases which were

created on the MySQL server. To do so modifications need to be made to the context.xml file which is

located in the /tomcat/webapps/pentaho/META-INF/ directory.

NOTE

If you already have a user which you prefer to have access thehibernate database instead of

the default userhibuser, you will need to modify all occurances ofhibuser/password in this

section.This also applies to thepentaho_user/password used to connect to the Quartz

database.

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




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TrustedIpAddrs

If you want to access your Tomcat-Apache server remotely - so in the above step you have not specified

localhost or127.0.0.1 for the base-url parameter - you will need to add your Tomcat-Apache

server's IP address to this list.

Open up the file and locate this line of code:

TrustedIpAddrs

127.0.0.1

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

to this:

TrustedIpAddrs

127.0.0.1,[your_ip_address]

This will allow the Pentaho Administration Console to 'ping' the server to see if it is up or down - you do

not 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 these

parameters are self explanatory.



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password



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Configuring Publishing

By default publishing is not enabled, to enable it you will need to specify a password which will need to be

used when publishing. To get started you will need to edit the publisher_config.xml file located

under the /pentaho-solutions/system/ directory, once open locate the following snippet of code:

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 is

publishthis):

publishthis

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

password.



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Configuring the Administration Console

By default no configuration is needed when setting up Pentaho's Administration Console (PAC) with

MySQL 5.x.



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Starting the Business Intelligence Platform

The Pentaho BI Platform is a webapp on the Apache-Tomcat server. To start Apache-Tomcat you will

need 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.sh

Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat

Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat

Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/pentaho/biserver-ce/tomcat/temp

Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

Now you should be able to visit http://localhost:8080/pentaho or

http://[your_domain_or_ip]:8080/pentaho . If the Pentaho BI Platform has started successfully

you 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 Console

To start the Administration Console you will need to run the start-pac.sh file which is located under

the opt/pentaho/administration-console/ folder:

user@terminal:/opt/pentaho/administration-console# start-pac.sh

DEBUG: Using JAVA_HOME

DEBUG: _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 via

org.mortbay.log.StdErrLog

05/01/2010 4:27:18 PM org.pentaho.pac.server.JettyServer startServer

INFO: Console is starting

2010-01-05 16:27:18.118::INFO: jetty-6.1.2

2010-01-05 16:27:38.672::INFO: Started SocketConnector @ 0.0.0.0:8099

05/01/2010 4:27:38 PM org.pentaho.pac.server.JettyServer startServer

INFO: 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 should

see the following welcome screen:



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