Manually install a driver for the Pentaho Server

You can manually install a driver for the Pentaho Server, even when you are not connected to the Pentaho Server with the PDI client. This task assumes that you have downloaded your driver from the Support Portal or that you are using the Apache Hadoop driver that is shipped with Pentaho.

Perform the following steps to manually install a driver for the Pentaho Server :

1. Navigate to the directory where you downloaded your .kar file from the Support Portal.

2. Select the driver (.kar file) you want to add and copy it to the <pentaho home>/server/pentaho-server/pentaho-solutions/drivers directory on the machine with the Pentaho Server.

   The vendor distribution files contain their abbreviations in the .kar file names as shown below:

   • Amazon EMR (emr)

   • Azure HDInsight (hdi)

   • Cloudera Data Platform (cdp)

   • Google Dataproc (dataproc)

3. Restart the Pentaho Server.