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Starting DI Server on Linux

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Overview

Explains how to start the DI Server.

Install License Keys Using the Command Line Interface

  1. Download the .lic file you want to install.
  2. Copy your .lic files to the DI Server.
  3. Navigate to the license-installer directory:  pentaho/license-installer
  4.  Run install_license.sh with the install switch and the location and name of your .lic file as a parameter. You can specify multiple .lic files separated by spaces. Be sure to use backslashes to escape any spaces in the path or file name, like this:
install_license.sh install /home/<user name>/downloads/Pentaho\ DI\ Enterprise\ Edition.lic

Modify the Tomcat Linux Startup Script

The Tomcat startup script must be modified to include the CATALINA_OPTS variable. CATALINA_OPTS indicates the amount of memory to allocate. It also indicates where Pentaho licenses are installed. 

  1. Make sure the Tomcat web application server is not running by opening a Terminal window and typing ps -A at the prompt. If the server is running, stop it.
  2. Use a text editor to open the start-pentaho.sh file, which is in the data-integration-server directory.
  3. Add the java option pentaho.installed.licenses file to CATALINA_OPTS. You need to modify setting of CATALINA_OPTS variable at the end of the file by adding the java option. See the following example.
CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms4096m -Xmx6144m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -Dpentaho.installed.licenses.file=$PENTAHO_INSTALLED_LICENSE_PATH"
  1. Save and close the file.

Start DI Server 

Run the start-pentaho.sh file.

Problems Starting the DI Server?

Check out our Troubleshooting Guide for help.

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