Use MySQL as your repository database (Archive installation)
This article includes the steps for installing MySQL as the host database for the Pentaho Server in an archive installation of Pentaho.
Before you begin
Before you prepare your Pentaho Repository, you must prepare either a Windows or Linux environment.
The Pentaho Repository resides on the database that you installed during the Windows or Linux environment preparation step, and consists of the following components:
Jackrabbit
Contains the solution repository, examples, security data, and content data from reports that you use Pentaho software to create.
Quartz
Holds data that is related to scheduling reports and jobs.
Hibernate
Holds data that is related to audit logging.
(Optional) Pentaho Operations Mart
To report on system usage and performance.
Initialize MySQLPentaho Repository database
To initialize MySQL so that it serves as the Pentaho Repository, you will need to run several SQL scripts to create the Hibernate, Quartz, Jackrabbit (JCR), and Pentaho Operations Mart components.
The sections in this article take you through the steps to initialize the MySQL Pentaho Repository database.
Step 1: Change default passwords
Procedure
Browse to the pentaho/server/pentaho-server/data/mysql5 directory.
Use any text editor to change the passwords in these SQL scripts:
- create_jcr_mysql.sql
- create_quartz_mysql.sql
- create_repository_mysql.sql
- pentaho_mart_mysql.sql
Step 2: Run SQL scripts
You will need to run the SQL scripts in the table below.
Run these scripts from the MySQL Command Prompt window or from MySQL Workbench.
Action | SQL Script |
Create Quartz | > source <your filepath>/create_quartz_mysql.sql |
Create Hibernate repository | > source <your filepath>/create_repository_mysql.sql |
Create Jackrabbit | > source <your filepath>/create_jcr_mysql.sql |
Create Pentaho Operations mart | > source <your filepath>/pentaho_mart_mysql.sql |
Step 3: Verify MySQL initialization
After you run the scripts, perform the following steps to verify that databases and user roles have been created:
Procedure
Open the MySQL Workbench tool.
MySQL Workbench is freely available at the MySQL development sight.Log in as: hibuser
Make sure that the Quartz, Jackrabbit (JCR), Hibernate, and Pentaho Operations Mart databases are present.
Exit from MySQL Workbench.
Configure MySQL Pentaho RepositoryDatabase
Now that you have initialized your repository database, you will need to configure Quartz, Hibernate, Jackrabbit, and Pentaho Operations Mart for a MySQL database.
By default, the examples in this section are for a MySQL database that runs on port 3306. The default password is also in these examples.
Step 1: Set up Quartz on MySQL
Event information, such as scheduled reports, is stored in the Quartz JobStore. During the installation process, you must indicate where the JobStore is located by modifying the quartz.properties file.
Open the pentaho/server/pentaho-server/pentaho-solutions/system/quartz/quartz.properties file in any text editor.
Locate the #_replace_jobstore_properties section and set the org.quartz.jobStore.driverDelegateClass as shown:
org.quartz.jobStore.driverDelegateClass = org.quartz.impl.jdbcjobstore.StdJDBCDelegate
Locate the # Configure Datasources section and set the org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.jndiURL equal to Quartz, as shown:
org.quartz.dataSource.myDS.jndiURL = Quartz
Save the file and close the text editor.
Step 2: Set Hibernate settings for MySQL
The files in this section are located in the pentaho/server/pentaho-server/pentaho-solutions/system/hibernate directory.
Perform the following steps to specify where Pentaho can find the Hibernate configuration file.
Procedure
Open the hibernate-settings.xml file in a text editor. Find the <config-file> tags and change postgresql.hibernate.cfg.xml to mysql5.hibernate.cfg.xml as shown.
From:
<config-file>system/hibernate/postgresql.hibernate.cfg.xml</config-file>
To:
<config-file>system/hibernate/mysql5.hibernate.cfg.xml</config-file>
Save and close the file.
Open the mysql5.hibernate.cfg.xml file in a text editor.
Make sure that the password and port number match the ones you specified in your configuration. Make changes if necessary, then save and close the file.
Step 3: Replace default version of audit log file with MySQL version
Since you are using MySQL to host the Pentaho Repository, you need to replace the audit_sql.xml file with one that is configured for MySQL.
Procedure
Locate the pentaho-solutions/system/dialects/mysql5/audit_sql.xml file.
Copy it into the pentaho-solutions/system directory.
Step 4: Modify Jackrabbit repository information for MySQL
Procedure
Navigate to the pentaho/server/pentaho-server/pentaho-solutions/system/jackrabbit and open the repository.xml file with any text editor.
As shown in the table below, locate and verify or change the code so that the MySQL lines are not commented out, but the MS SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL lines are commented out.
CautionIf you have a different port or different password, make sure that you change the password and port number in these examples to match the ones in your configuration.Item Code Section Repository <FileSystem class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.fs.db.DbFileSystem"> <param name="driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/> <param name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jackrabbit"/> …
DataStore <DataStore class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.data.db.DbDataStore"> <param name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jackrabbit"/> … </DataStore>
Workspaces <FileSystem class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.fs.db.DbFileSystem"> <param name="driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/> <param name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jackrabbit"/> … </FileSystem>
PersistenceManager (1st part) <PersistenceManager class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.bundle.MySqlPersistenceManager"> <param name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jackrabbit"/> … </PersistenceManager>
Versioning <FileSystem class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.fs.db.DbFileSystem"> <param name="driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/> <param name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jackrabbit"/> …
PersistenceManager (2nd part) <PersistenceManager class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.bundle.MySqlPersistenceManager"> <param name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jackrabbit"/> … </PersistenceManager>
DatabaseJournal <Journal class="org.apache.jackrabbit.core.journal.DatabaseJournal"> <param name="revision" value="${rep.home}/revision.log"/> <param name="driver" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/> <param name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/jackrabbit"/> <param name="user" value="jcr_user"/> <param name="password" value="password"/> <param name="schema" value="mysql"/> <param name="schemaObjectPrefix" value="J_C_"/> <param name="janitorEnabled" value="true"/> <param name="janitorSleep" value="86400"/> <param name="janitorFirstRunHourOfDay" value="3"/> </Journal>
Perform Tomcat-specific connection tasks
After your repository has been configured, you must configure the web application servers to connect to the Pentaho Repository. In this step, you will make JDBC and JNDI connections to the Hibernate, Jackrabbit, and Quartz components.
The next couple of sections guide you through the process of working with the JDBC drivers and connection information for Tomcat.
Step 1: Download driver and apply to the Pentaho Server
To connect to a database, including the Pentaho Repository database, you will need to download and copy a JDBC driver to the appropriate places for the Pentaho Server as well as on the web application server.
Before you begin
Procedure
Download a JDBC Driver JAR from your database vendor or a third-party driver developer.
Copy the JDBC driver JAR you just downloaded to the pentaho/server/pentaho-server/tomcat/lib folder.
Copy the hsqldb-2.3.2.jar file to pentaho-server/tomcat/lib if you want to retain the sample provided by Pentaho.
Step 2: Modify JDBC connection information in the Tomcat XML file
Procedure
Consult your database documentation to determine the JDBC class name and the connection string for your Pentaho Repository database.
Navigate to the server/pentaho-server/tomcat/webapps/pentaho/META-INF directory and open the context.xml file with any text editor.
Add the following code to the file if it does not already exist.
<Resource validationQuery="select 1" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hibernate" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" password="password" username="hibuser" initialSize="0" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000" factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory" type="javax.sql.DataSource" auth="Container" name="jdbc/Hibernate"/> <Resource validationQuery="select 1" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/hibernate" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" password="password" username="hibuser" initialSize="0" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000" factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory" type="javax.sql.DataSource" auth="Container" name="jdbc/Audit"/> <Resource validationQuery="select 1" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/quartz" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" password="password" username="pentaho_user" testOnBorrow="true" initialSize="0" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000" factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory" type="javax.sql.DataSource" auth="Container" name="jdbc/Quartz"/> <Resource validationQuery="select 1" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/pentaho_operations_mart" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" password="password" username="hibuser" initialSize="0" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000" factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory" type="javax.sql.DataSource" auth="Container" name="jdbc/pentaho_operations_mart"/> <Resource validationQuery="select 1" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/pentaho_operations_mart" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" password="password" username="hibuser" initialSize="0" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000" factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory" type="javax.sql.DataSource" auth="Container" name="jdbc/PDI_Operations_Mart"/> <Resource name="jdbc/live_logging_info" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory" initialSize="0" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="10000" username="hibuser" password="password" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/pentaho_dilogs" validationQuery="select 1"/>
Modify the username, password, driver class information, IP address (or domain name), and port numbers to match the correct values for your environment.
Comment out any resource references that refer to other databases.
Verify that the validationQuery parameter for your database is set to: validationQuery="select 1".
Save the context.xml file, then close it.
Start Your Server
Now that you have completed the initial Pentaho Archive installation steps, you are ready to start the Pentaho Server.