I am using Pentaho BI Server 5.0.1 with the Pivot4J plug-in for Pentaho and Pentaho Metadata Editor (PME) 5.1.0. I created a domain in PME with tables, relationships, security, etc. and published it to the Pentaho server. I can see this Domain as a datasource of type 'Metadata' when I go to 'Manage Datasources' in the Admin console. However my Domain does not appear as a source when I try to create a new Pivot4J view.
I do see the Pentaho demos (Sampledata and Steel Wheels) in Pivot4J but I do not see my domain/metadata. I also edited the PentahoObject.spring.xml file to remove security on metadata objects as suggested in the Pentaho doc. Same thing for Saiku. What is the step that I am missing here?
Related
If we need to perform queries in pentaho data integration (IDE), we need to add manually the datasource in simple-jdin/jdbc.properties
MyDatabase/type=javax.sql.DataSource
MyDatabase/driver=org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
MyDatabase/url=jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost/sampledata
MyDatabase/user=pentaho_admin
MyDatabase/password=password
This works as expected in the ide known as pentaho data integration, spoon or kettle.
But, the same in pentaho server 8.2 does not works.
Steps to reproduce the error
deploy or upload the transformation(.ktr) in the pentaho-server 8.2
add manually the datasource in the server /../pentaho-server/pentaho-solutions/system/simple-jndi/jdbc.properties
executed the transformation using pentaho server web console : run in background or schedule options
error: datasource not found
Alternative
Create the datasource manually using web console of pentaho server instead of manually modification of file : /../pentaho-server/pentaho-solutions/system/simple-jndi/jdbc.properties
Question
simple-jndi/jdbc.properties works in server or is just for development purposes (pdi)?
are the settings available in jdbc.properties file on server can you verify the same by referring to the pentaho data integrator > simple-jndi folder.
also are you able to connect to the database from the server may be using a database client to confirm.
NOTE:whenever you work with databases make sure you relevant library files to connect to the respective database.
From my personal experience, I was not able to make the server pick JNDI connection definitions from the simple-jndi/jdbc.properties file when the Pentaho Server was running with Tomcat.
I was only able to use JNDI on the Pentaho Server by defining JNDI Datasources in the Tomcat configuration files.
I ran into deployment issues, so I created a test app to prove out the deployment process. I've kept everything as "out of the box" as possible:
I've created a simple (one table and one screen) VS2013 LightSwitch HTML client app, but the deployment fails, because it will not deploy the database schema.
I've created the Azure website and linked it to my Azure SQL Database, also the "Deploy database schema" checkbox is checked in the wizard.
It seems that my only option at the moment is to manually create the DB objects, which seems kind of absurd.
I have found a workaround to this issue.
It seems that the problem stems from not having the deployment credentials. What I have found is that if I attempt to deploy the server project there is a drop down list box that's supposed to be populated with available destinations. At the first attempt the list comes up blank but if I proceed to publish a message flashes up confirming a new set of credentials has been downloaded. After that I found I am able to publish the main project itself database objects as well.
In short; make sure you are properly logged in even if you have to log out and then in again, and also have deployment credentials up to date.
im running schema-workbench 3.6.1, Pentaho BI server 5.0.1, Saiku analytics installed from the marketplace and I successfully publish from schema-workbench. (I also have the datasource present and working in both schema-workbench and BI Server)
When I go to BI server the analytics file created by the workbench is present but the cube is not in saiku analytics, I try to refresh and only are present the two test cubes. What im doing wrong?
I appreciate your help.
Check your pentaho.log and catalina.out files, there's most likely an error on the schema (bad column or table name, wrong data type on a level, or something similar).
I was deploy pentaho bi server on my running tomcat server ref from here.
Now I want to create JNDI bases datasource so I login through pentaho administration console but in that web page nothing to shows users lists, user role. After googling some times I was found that change console.xml then I was changed my console.xml file as below
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<console>
<solution-path>/home/pc-name/pentaho-solutions</solution-path>
<war-path>/home/pc-name/apache-tomcat-7.0.47/webapps/pentaho</war-path>
<platform-username>joe</platform-username>
<biserver-status-check-period-millis>30000</biserver-status-check-period-millis>
<homepage-url>http://www.pentaho.com/console_home</homepage-url>
<homepage-timeout-millis>15000</homepage-timeout-millis>
<!-- comma separated list of roles (no spaces) -->
<default-roles>Authenticated</default-roles>
<default-server-dir>biserver-ce</default-server-dir>
</console>
then I was stopped administration console and then again start but still it not shows me any user lists, role lists. After that I hard coded start-pac.sh as below
DIR_REL=`dirname $0`
cd $DIR_REL
DIR=`/home/pc-name/apache-tomcat-7.0.47`
cd -
. "$DIR/set-pentaho-env.sh"
setPentahoEnv "$DIR/../biserver-ce/jre"
but running at start-pac.sh it shows set-pentaho-env.sh not found but in my first steps deploying pentaho bi server on existing tomcat it not mentioned anything about set-pentaho-env.sh where to copy or set. Can any one knows how to solve this problem?
Short answer: Pentaho 5.0 doesn't have an admin console because both user roles and database connections are easily configured in the user console. It seems you just started to deploy your biserver so I suggest you upgrade to the new version and leave admin console behind. Trust me. You will like it.
Long answer: If you still wish to stay with 4.8 for some strange reason:
Don't change anything in Pac-start.bat, revert to the original version before your changes. If you need to change the default URL or port, then
find biserver-ce\tomcat\conf\server.xml
the default for pentaho user console is 8080, and the default admin console port is 8443. Change those to your preference. Once done,
find biserver-ce\tomcat\webapps\pentaho\WEB-INF\web.xml
change here:
<context-param>
<param-name>fully-qualified-server-url</param-name>
<param-value>http://localhost:8080/pentaho/</param-value>
</context-param>
then find the list of trusted Ip's and add additional trusted IP's here (this is somewhere around line 133)
<param-name>TrustedIpAddrs</param-name>
<param-value>127.0.0.1,0\:0\:0\:0\:0\:0\:0\:1(%.+)*$</param-value>
<description>Comma separated list of IP addresses of a trusted hosts.</description>
(Also covered in this article: http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/ServerDoc2x/Setting+up+trust+between+Administration+Console+and+BI+Server)
Make sure when you start the admin console, pentaho biserver is running already. Admin console will not work if the biserver is not running.
Make sure you use the correct JDK, because a wrong java configuration, or wrong java_home_path can also cause admin console to not stand up.
Really, just go with Pentaho 5.0.1.
I installed the Saiku as a plugin in Pentaho 4.8. Saiku comes with the sample data which is SteelWheels. The user is able to choose "Select a cube" in the dropdown box. I just need to know how can I modify the data in that sample data? Where is the file which contains the datastore? And how does the database communicate with the XML file?
Thank you
You have to create a cube in pentaho schema workbench or in pentaho BI Server..
If you are creating it in Schema Workbench then you have to publish it after you publish your schema into bi server you will directly able to see that selected cube into Saiku Server..