In this post, we are going to install
Pentaho Community Edition on a Ubuntu 12.04 Edition. Pentaho is an open source Business Intelligence server. Business Intelligence or BI, as many of readers might know, is a set of technologies to allow executives and operators make sense of the data collected within an organization. It typically tries to collate data from different transactional and operational systems into a specialized data model such that data can be sliced and diced, and aggregated and analyzed through visual and other means to derive actionable intelligence for business decisions.
The details on the Community edition are available at http://community.pentaho.com/projects/bi_platform/
The first step is obviously going to be to access and install the BI server.We can access the Community Edition by accessing the following URL. At the time of writing this post, the latest version available was 4.5, which is available from the following location.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Business%20Intelligence%20Server/4.5.0-stable/
The details on the Community edition are available at http://community.pentaho.com/projects/bi_platform/
The first step is obviously going to be to access and install the BI server.We can access the Community Edition by accessing the following URL. At the time of writing this post, the latest version available was 4.5, which is available from the following location.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Business%20Intelligence%20Server/4.5.0-stable/
I
downloaded biserver-ce-stable.zip
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Business%20Intelligence%20Server/4.5.0-stable/).
Downloading the BI Server
To download this 450 MB file, it took a
long time as I was travelling at the time, and did not have access to
a high speed connection. After a few unsuccessful attempts, I
resorted to using Linux's wget command to download the file.
After many hours on the slow
connection, finally the download was complete.
Installation Steps
To install the file, navigate to the
location where the file was downloaded and unzip the file.
The BI Server includes an Embedded
Tomcat instance. We can navigate to the folder in a command window
and start the Tomcat instance by entering the following command.
Next step is to make the shell files
executable by entering the following command.
> chmod a+x *.sh
Next step is to ensure that the
embeddable Tomcat server is executable. For, doing that navigate to
the bin directory of the embedded Tomcat server and entering the
command to make the shell files executable.
> cd tomcat/bin
> chmod a+x *.sh
Last but not the least, we need to make
sure that the embedded Tomcat instance can execute on the defauly
port. For this we need to edit and change the Tomcat port, that is
configured in the ./tomcat/conf/server.xml file. Since I already have
one Tomcat instance configured on port 8080, I needed to change the
embedded Tomcat port to 8082.
Change the port to 8082 in the
appropriate connector entry. Also, we may need to change the shutdown
port, which is 8005 by default, to something like 8007.
Finally, we can save the file and close
it. Now, we can go back start Pentaho server by entering the
following command.
> ./start-pentaho.sh
Now, we can access the Pentaho BI
Server on the browser by entering the url
http://ub1204.arthgallo.com:8082/pentaho
Now, we can login by entering the
following credentials.
Administrator login: joe/password
Entering the password, we can see the
following home page for Pentaho BI Server
That's it, we have Pentaho Community Edition installed. By the way, I soon learnt that the Community Edition Pentaho does not ship with a Dashboard, which was the purpose of the whole exercise. That is available through an extension, setting up which I have described in the a future post (http://opendesignarch.blogspot.com/2012/12/install-community-dashboard-tools-on.html).
All the best!
All the best!
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