Install Mondrian 3 on CentOS

This post will cover installing Mondrian OLAP Engine on CentOS with Tomcat and MySQL. Mondrian 3.2.0.13661 Tomcat 6.0.30 MySQL 5.0.77 This post assumes you have a working Tomcat installation. If you do not, please follow our step-by-step tutorial to installing Tomcat 6 or Tomcat 7. You will need to download the following: Mondrian: mondrian-3.2.0.13661.zip http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondrian/files/mondrian/mondrian-3.2.0.13661-GA/ Apache Axis 1.4: axis-bin-1_4.tar.gzhttp://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/ws/axis/1_4 MySQL Connector J (if not already installed): mysql-connector-java-5.1.14.tar.gzhttp://www.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/ Unzip mondrian-3.2.0.13661.zip

[root@srv6 opt]# unzip -q mondrian-3.2.0.13661.zip

Unpack Axis 1.4

[root@srv6 opt]# tar xzf axis-bin-1_4.tar.gz

Unpack mysql-connector-java-5.1.14.tar.gz

[root@srv6 opt]# tar xzf mysql-connector-java-5.1.14.tar.gz

In your /opt directory you should now have:

[root@srv6 opt]# ls
axis-1_4                mondrian-3.2.0.13661
mysql-connector-java-5.1.14

Naviagte to /opt/mondrian-3.2.0.13661/lib You can use one of two methods to deploy the mondrian.war to Tomcat_Home/webapps:Method 1. Copy or mv the Modrian.WAR file from /opt/mondrian-3.2.0.13661/lib to your Tomcat/webapps directory and restart Tomcat to deploy the WAR.

[root@srv6 opt]# cp /opt/mondrian-3.2.0.13661/lib/mondrian.war /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian.war
[root@srv6 opt]# service tomcat start (or restart)

Method 2. Create the mondrian directory under Tomcat_Home/webapps and manually and explode the WAR via the CLI

[root@srv6 opt]# mkdir /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian
[root@srv6 opt]# cp /opt/mondrian-3.2.0.13661/lib/mondrian.war /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/mondrian.war
[root@srv6 opt]# cd /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian
[root@srv6 mondrian]# jar -xvf mondrian.war

There are four JAR files we need from /opt/axis-1_4/lib: axis.jar commons-discovery-0.2.jar wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar jaxrpc.jar Copy or move these JAR file to /mondrian/WEB-INF/lib:

[root@srv6 mondrian]# cd /opt/axis-1_4/lib
[root@srv6 lib]# cp axis.jar /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/axis.jar
[root@srv6 lib]# cp commons-discovery-0.2.jar /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/commons-discovery-0.2.jar
[root@srv6 lib]# cp wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/wsdl4j-1.5.1.jar
[root@srv6 lib]# cp jaxrpc.jar /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/jaxrpc.jar

Copy or move the MySQL Connector to /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib

[root@srv6 lib]# cp /opt/mysql-connector-java-5.1.14/mysql-connector-java-5.1.14-bin.jar /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.1.14-bin.jar

[root@srv6 ~]# service tomcat restart
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_23
Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/bin/bootstrap.jar
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_23
Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/bin/bootstrap.jar

[root@srv6 lib]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 10
Server version: 5.0.77 Source distribution

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> create database foodmart
    -> ;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)

mysql> grant all privileges on *.* to 'foodmart'@'localhost' identified by 'foodmart';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

mysql>

java -cp "/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/mondrian.jar:/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.8.jar:/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar:/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/commons-collections-3.1.jar:/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/eigenbase-xom.jar:/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/eigenbase-resgen.jar:/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/eigenbase-properties.jar:/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/lib/mysql-connector-java-5.1.14-bin.jar" mondrian.test.loader.MondrianFoodMartLoader 
-verbose -tables -data -indexes -jdbcDrivers=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver 
-inputFile=/opt/mondrian-3.2.0.13661/demo/FoodMartCreateData.sql
-outputJdbcURL="jdbc:mysql://localhost/foodmart?user=foodmart&password=foodmart"

• In the above, I have used the full directory paths for everything. So you can run the above from any directory. It also allows you to see exactly where everything is coming from.

• My Tomcat installation is located at /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30, so if yours is elsewhere, you'll need to update this above.

• Similarly, I have placed mysql-connector-java-5.1.14-bin.jar in mondrain/WEB-INF/lib. If you already have this elsewhere or are using a different version of connector j, update accordingly.

• The Pentaho/Mondrian docs do not mention using commons-collections-3.1.jar, but I needed to use this to get the data to load.

Now that we have loaded all of the require jars and loaded the sample data, we need to create a data source, and edit some files. Create a Data Source, we'll call it DsMySQL. Open /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/datasurce.xml and edit to look like below.

Provider=Mondrian;DataSource=DsMySQL;FoodMart Data Warehousehttp://localhost:8080/mondrian/xmlaProvider=mondrian;Jdbc=jdbc:mysql://localhost/foodmart;JdbcUser=foodmart;JdbcPassword=foodmart;JdbcDrivers=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver;MondrianMDPUnauthenticated/WEB-INF/queries/FoodMart.xml

Replace the two instances of @mondrian.webapp.connectString@ with the following:

Provider=mondrian;Jdbc=jdbc:mysql://localhost/foodmart?user=foodmart&password=foodmart;Catalog=/WEB-INF/queries/FoodMart.xml;JdbcDrivers=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver;

Original web.xml entries:

connectString@mondrian.webapp.connectString@MDXQueryServletmondrian.web.servlet.MdxQueryServletconnectString@mondrian.webapp.connectString@

Web.xml after editing:

connectStringProvider=mondrian;Jdbc=jdbc:mysql://localhost/foodmart?user=foodmart&password=foodmart;Catalog=/WEB-INF/queries/FoodMart.xml;JdbcDrivers=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver;MDXQueryServletmondrian.web.servlet.MdxQueryServletconnectStringProvider=mondrian;Jdbc=jdbc:mysql://localhost/foodmart?user=foodmart&password=foodmart;Catalog=/WEB-INF/queries/FoodMart.xml;JdbcDrivers=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver;

Under /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/webapps/mondrian/WEB-INF/queries, edit the following: fourhier.jsp mondrian.jsp colors.jsp arrows.jsp In each case, replace this:

with this...

For testrole.jsp, replace this:

with this...

For xmla.jsp, replace this:

with this...(using the Data Source, DsMySQL, we created in step 7 above):

/usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/bin/Catalina.sh Add the following:

JAVA_OPTS="-Djavax.xml.soap.MessageFactory=org.apache.axis.soap.MessageFactoryImpl -
Djavax.xml.soap.SOAPConnectionFactory=org.apache.axis.soap.SOAPConnectionFactoryImpl -Djavax.xml.soap.SOAPFactory=org.apache.axis.soap.SOAPFactoryImpl"

[root@srv6 ~]# service tomcat restart
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_23
Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/bin/bootstrap.jar
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_23
Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.30/bin/bootstrap.jar

That should do it :) Navigate to http://YourIP:8080/modrian or http://YourDomain.com:8080/mondrian and verify that all samples are working correctly. Notes: Mondrian Installation Docs: http://mondrian.pentaho.com/documentation/installation.php Forcing Mondrian to use axis (SOAP) and Xalan libraries for JPivot by Sherman Wood; http://lists.pentaho.org/pipermail/mondrian/2009-January/001550.htmlhttp://lists.pentaho.org/pipermail/mondrian/2009-January/001553.html I did not use Xalan in the above post. A great step-by-step guide to trouble-shooting each sample app from Feris Thia: http://pentaho-en.phi-integration.com/mondrian/configuring-mondrian-sample