Windows 11 Pentaho Lab

Setup Windows Pentaho Pro Suite ..

Overview

Pentaho Data Integration is a client-based tool commonly installed and configured to run on Windows 11.

There are several licensing options, for these workshops we will be installing a 30-day 'Pro Suite' Evaluation Edition. This will give you the opportunity to try out building a complete solution - automated data pipelines + analytics ..

Pentaho Licensing options.

Pro Suite Edition

The Pentaho Pro Suite Edition is the latest release of:

Server Components

  • Pentaho Server

  • Pentaho Analyzer, Interactive & Dashboard plugins

Client Components

  • Pentaho Data Integration

  • Metadata Editor

  • Schema Workbench

Placeholder for Installation
  1. Download the Pro Suite Edition.

Link to Pentaho download
  1. Fill in the form.

Download 30-day Enterprise Edition
  1. Once completed you will be able to download: pentaho-business-analytics-xxxx.exe

  1. Navigate to the downloaded pentaho-business-analytics-10.X.X-XXX.exe installation file.

  2. Double-click the pentaho-business-analytics-10.X.X-XXX.exe file to launch it.

  3. Ignore the Antivirus warning ..

  1. Accept the License agreement.

End user license agreement
  1. Keep the default installation path.

Default installation path
  1. The default Pentaho Repository database is PostgreSQL.

Password: password

Pentaho Repository
  1. Decide if you wish to install everything or specific components.

Keep it simple.

With the Pentaho Installation Wizard you can choose one of two ways to install Pentaho components:

  • Default: Select the Keep it simple. Give me everything option in the installation wizard.

  • Custom: Select the Let me decide for myself option in the installation wizard.

Let me decide for myself
  1. Enter either an Activation ID or a Licensing server URL (Production).

  1. Click 'Next' to start the installation.

  1. Once completed you should have the following Pentaho directory structure.

Pentaho directory

Data Integration

  1. Start Pentaho Data Integration.

Windows - Powershell

Set-Location C:\Pentaho\design-tools\data-integration
.\spoon.bat

Linux

cd
cd ~/Pentaho/design-tools/data-integration
./spoon.sh

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