.01 Introduction

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The Pentaho Administration Console provides you with a central location from which to administer your Pentaho deployments. The console aggregates and simplifies many common administrative tasks such as managing users and roles, scheduling jobs, and managing services. The Administration Console changes how you interact with your Pentaho deployments by automating some of the tasks that you now perform manually.
 
The Pentaho Administration Console offers limited functionality compared to the feature-rich, subscription-only, Pentaho Enterprise Console. The Pentaho Enterprise Console provides additional functionality that allows you to monitor performance, remotely monitor activity on a Carte server instance (for Pentaho Data Integration), verify connections, test configuration settings, configure security, and much more. For more information about the Pentaho Enterprise Console, contact us.

Overview of Console Components

Below is a short description of each page in the Pentaho Administration Console:

Home

From your console home page (shown above), you are able access to important information about your Pentaho deployment. For example, status indicators appear in the tool bar when there is a critical error, a process that is currently running, or a warning you must research.

Console tool bar

The console tool bar provides you with icons that help you determine the status of your server, console-related errors, console set up, and more. The table below contains a brief description of each icon in the tool bar, from left to right:

Administration

From the Administration page you can manage users and roles, define data sources, manage admin services, and manage public (subscription) and private (regular) schedules.