Manual installation

Install Pentaho manually when you want to use your own Tomcat web application server in a production environment, particularly if you must comply with your company standard database platform or web application server.

If you are installing Pentaho in a production environment, you would use this method to install the Pentaho Server on a server machine while installing design tools on separate client workstations. It requires that you download and install Pentaho installation files.

You must also choose the Pentaho Repository database that you want to use, but you must download and install it yourself.

When you install the Pentaho Server using the manual method, you can choose which BA plugins you want to install (such as Analyzer and Interactive Reports).