Add a new driver

To add a new driver, first download the driver file from the Support Portal then add it to Pentaho using the PDI client. If you are connected to a repository, the driver is copied to the Pentaho Server driver directory. Otherwise, the driver is copied locally to the PDI client driver directory.

Perform the following steps to add a new driver.

1. Download the new driver from the Support Portal.

   1. On the Support Portal home page, sign in using the Pentaho support username and password provided in your Pentaho Welcome Packet.

   2. In the Pentaho card, click Download.

      The Downloads page opens.

   3. In the 10.x list, click See all <number> articles to see the full list of 10.x downloads.

   4. On the 10.x page, click Pentaho 10.2 GA Release.

   5. Scroll to the bottom of the Pentaho 10.2 GA Release page.

   6. In the file component section, browse to the Big Data Shims folder and download the driver file that you need.

      The following table lists the driver files that are available in the Big Data Shims folder.

      Cluster connected to PDI	File
      Apache Vanilla	pentaho-hadoop-shims-ee- apachevanilla-kar-10.2.0.0-<build number>.kar
      Cloudera Data Platform	pentaho-hadoop-shims-ee- cdpdc71-kar-10.2.0.0-<build number>.kar
      Google Dataproc	pentaho-hadoop-shims-ee- dataproc1421-kar-10.2.0.0- <build number>.kar
      Amazon Elastic MapReduce	pentaho-hadoop-shims-ee- emr700-kar-10.2.0.0-<build number>.kar
      Azure HDInsight	pentaho-hadoop-shims-ee- hdi40-kar-10.2.0.0-<build number>.kar

2. Unpack the Zip file that contains the driver to a temporary directory.

3. In the PDI client, select the View tab of your transformation or job.

4. Right-click the Hadoop clusters folder and click Add driver.

   The Add driver dialog box appears.

5. Click Browse and navigate to the temporary directory that contains the new driver .kar file that you downloaded from the Support Portal.

6. Select the new driver .kar file, click Open, and then click Next.

   The Congratulations dialog box appears, notifying you that you must restart the PDI client and the Pentaho Server.

   • If you are connected to a repository, the driver is copied to the Pentaho Server driver directory.

   • If you are not connected to a repository, the driver is copied to the PDI client driver directory.