This document provides instructions for installing and administering the Pentaho BI suite. It discusses hardware and software requirements, downloading and installing the suite, starting the servers, and managing users, roles, data sources, and schedules through the administration console. The key capabilities of the Pentaho BI suite are also summarized, including querying, reporting, OLAP analysis, dashboards, data mining, workflows, and ETL.

1. INSTALLATION AND ADMININSTRATION OF THE PENTAHO BI SUITE

3. OLAP Analysis

4. Dashboard

5. Datamining

6. Workflow

7. ETL capabilities for business intelligence needsIts open source software licensed with GNU general public license version 2,the Mozilla public licence,the common public license

8. Who are ideal to users of pentaho BI suite? Open source software programmers Early adopters College students Business intelligence connoisseur

9. INSTALLATION Hardware requirements Software requirements Downloading and installing BI suite Starting the BI suite Administration of the BI suite

10. Hardware requirements Hard drive space of at least 1GB RAM size of at least 2GB Processor: Dual-core AMD64 or EM64T

12. Firefox 2.0 or higher

14. Metadata editor

15. Design studio

16. Data integration

19. on Linux : goto the command window and run the startup script in /biserver-ce/administration-console/directory To stop the server in windows just click on stop bi-server icons On Linux. Goto the command window and goto installed directory that contains the files and type stop.bat

20. Administration of the BI suite Open the web browser by typing ur web address or IP address of the Pentaho Administration Console server mention your details (default user:admin and your password) and login Click on administration tab Delete the default users and roles and add new ones if u want to Click on data sources and enter new connection details simple data source is set as default.

21. Pentaho administration console

22. Managing users Click on administration tab Click on users Select the user you want to modify To add click on (+) sign and in new window type the new name and add new password, username, confirmation password, and description To delete click on (–) or on cross sign To edit select the user and in details section edit the password, username, confirmation password, and description. Click on update

23. Managing users

24. Managing roles Click on administration tab Click on roles Select the role you want to modify To add click on (+) sign and in new window type the new name and add new rolename and description To delete click on (–) or on cross sign To edit select the role and in details section edit the rolename and description. Click on update

25. Managing roles

26. Configuring datasources To use and display your own data source In administration console Click on data sources/database connections Click on add(+) to add new datasource General configuration: Click general Enter the connection name Select the driver class Mention username , password and URL Click on TEST. Click on OK

27. Advanced configuration Click on advanced Enter the maximum number of active instances and maximum number of active connections Enter a valid SQL query Enter the time in milliseconds for the pool to wait Click on test Click ok To edit Make changes onthe right side, then test and update To delete Choose the data source and click on cross or (-) sign and update

28. Configuring datasources

29. Some of the administration services Manage and refresh the services Schedule and execute Refresh, restore and version control Purge Mondrian system cache View reports

30. Administration services

31. scheduler The scheduler allows to create, update run, Edit Suspend Resume Refresh From the scheduler list. To create a new scheduler Click on create button Enter the name, group ,description and the associate the schedule with selected files.

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