Using the PDI client

Perform the following steps to configure the PDI client host machine to run jobs or transformations from the command line interface (CLI).

1. Create a connection to the Hadoop cluster where you want to run your job or transformation.

2. Create and test the job or transformation in the PDI client to verify it works as expected.

3. Navigate to the design-tools/data-integration/plugins/pentaho-big-data-plugin directory and open the plugin.properties file with any text editor.

4. Set the value of the hadoop.configurations.path property to the location of the metastore directory, such as hadoop.configurations.path=/home/<user>/.pentaho.

   The metastore directory is created when you set up a named connection to the Hadoop cluster. The default metastore location for the PDI client is home/<user>/.pentaho/metastore.

5. 1. Save and close the plugin.properties file.