I am making my first steps in evaluating Pentaho. That means downloading the software, and installing my Virtual PC environment (Windows 2003, TomCat and MySQL preconfigured) with Pentaho. I have downloaded software from the Pentaho website (community/downloads), and picked out the Pentaho Open BI Suite (Pre-Configured Installation) version for Windows, Release 1.2.0 GA (Build 534). This version promises me: “Ready to serve, Pentaho Open BI Suite is deployed into a pre-installed and configured JBoss Application Server. In addition, it contains ready to use solution repositories including sets of reports demonstrating functionality and to help you get started. The latest version contains a preview of features of the upcoming Reporting Server.” This is an 121 Mb download. The release notes can be found on SourceForge.net. What I also read is “Extract and run”. Promising. The first question I have now (after extracting, that part is easy), is WHAT do I run. I have a start-pentaho.bat file, with the following commands:
@echo on
setlocal
set PENTAHO_PATH=%~dp0
set JAVA_HOME=%PENTAHO_PATH%jre
set PATH=%PENTAHO_PATH%jre\bin
cd data
start start_hypersonic.bat
cd ..\jboss\bin
start run < lines.txt
Hm, let’s first look at the “English – Getting Started with the BI_Platform 1.2.0″ guide, which is intended for people who want to get the platform up and running in 10 minutes. It’s 15:57 now. Some delay, as the files still had to be extracted to my Virtual env. The documentation is really well structured, as you only need to read the green boxes, when you want to install the stuff on a Windows box.
Two command boxes open, they should, after 30 seconds, tell me “Pentaho BI Platform server ready”. And, localhost:8080 should display a nice Pentaho starting screen. However, none of the above happens. 16:29: Let’s do a reboot.
I’ll be back.
April 2, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Have you sorted it? That start-pentaho.bat is really solid; I mean like 99.99% no issues.
a) do a start -> run -> cmd and run the bat file from the command line, so it will show you on screen any issues.
b) you mentioned a tomcat appliance virtual image. tomcat often comes preconfigured at port 8080. If you have issues, consider shutting down tomcat and start the Pentaho demo again.
Happy Trails!
Nick
(nicholasgoodman.com)
April 6, 2007 at 1:16 pm
I was able to run it with no problems on windows (host OS) and linux (guest OS). If it’s running on a virtual machine and you’re in your host operating system and try to type “localhost” into your browser that’s probably not going to work… try the browser on the guest OS.
April 6, 2007 at 2:30 pm
The solution Nicholas proposed did it for me!
Thanks a lot
July 30, 2007 at 9:58 am
What Nicholas tell was right. Shutdown tomcat (or any utility that holds 8080 port) and try it. It works really fine.
try it
August 15, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Hi,
I am new to this blog, but found a few intersting postings.
I have worked for about 9 months now with selling and implementing Open Source BI projects. I have often been looking for information and often searched info on forums. I have now created a non commercial wiki for adding tips and tricks, guides etc about open source bi, If anyone is interested please help me and other wiki members with adding material.
Cheers!
August 15, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Hi again I forgot the url: osbiwiki.org
September 19, 2007 at 11:04 am
Maybe it was just the version. I had to go back to an older version and not the latest release candidate to get the demo to install correctly as well.
For the demo I would just use the embedded database to start and once that works then try getting Pentaho using a MySQL database.
Have Fun
Paul
January 16, 2008 at 8:23 am
Hi,
I have Pentaho Demo- preconfigured installation with MySQL installed (Windows as OS). When i start ‘Start-Pentaho.bat’, it opens only one command prompt. I run Mysql manually.
I understand for hypersonic database based installation, two commmand prompts are invoked, and the hypersonic database is started when running ‘Start-Pentaho.bat’ itself.
How do i configure to run MySQL also when starting Pentaho?
Thank you.