Pentaho Administration

Console
(PAC)

Gabriele Pozzani

Features

The Pentaho Administration Console provides

a central location to administer Pentaho
deployments.
The console aggregates common
administrative tasks such as:

Managing users and roles

scheduling jobs

managing services

Home page

The home page provides access to important

information about your Pentaho deployment

Welcome/support information

Console toolbar

Server online/offline
Refresh console.
Documentation help

Administration

From the Administration page you can

manage users and roles

define data sources

manage public (subscription) and private (regular)

schedules

manage admin services

Roles
Add/delete role
Assign users to role
Roles' list

Users
Add/delete user

Users' list

Assign roles to user

Database connections

Connection name
Driver JDBC
DB account
Connection string

Services

Allow to manage schedules and refresh the

Pentaho BI Server settings

Scheduler

Allows you to create, update, delete, run,

suspend, and resume one or more schedules

a schedule is a time (or group of times) associated

with an action sequence

An Action Sequence is a predefined set of actions to be

performed on the BI server
It is good for sequencing small, linear, success oriented
tasks like reporting and bursting

Pentaho User Console

(PUC)

PUC

It is the primary user interface for the Pentaho

BI Server.
Users can run and manage

reports

analysis views

dashboards

PUC
Directories browser

Files browser

Main panel

PUC

You find a demo at:

http://demo.pentaho.com/pentaho/Home