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• • Create a new file named flexbi.service in the /etc/systemd/system directory using a text editor or copy the provided example file from the flex.bi server package folder bin/systemd. Configure the file like this (adjust the configuration to your particular case):
    

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    # Sample init script for flex.bi [Unit] Description=flex.bi reporting service After=syslog.target network.target [Service] Type=simple # Run the service as this user and group User=flexbi Group=flexbi TimeoutSec=30 # Remember to change /home/flexbi/flexbi_private to the actual home directory of flex.bi in all places WorkingDirectory=/home/flexbi/flexbi_private Environment="RAILS_ENV=production" Environment="EAZYBI_HOME=/home/flexbi/flexbi_private" Environment="EAZYBI_PREFIX=/flexbi" Environment="RUBYOPT=-W0" # Adjust to available memory Environment="JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx1024m -Xms256m -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dorg.eclipse.jetty.LEVEL=OFF -Djava.io.tmpdir=/home/flexbi/flexbi_private/tmp" Environment="EAZYBI_HOST=localhost" Environment="EAZYBI_PORT=8080" # Default configuration ExecStart=/usr/bin/java $JAVA_OPTS -Dwarbler.host=localhost -Dwarbler.port=8080 -jar flexbi_private.jar Restart=on-failure StandardOutput=syslog StandardError=syslog SyslogIdentifier=flexbi #LimitNOFILE=10000 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

    
    

  • Check and adjust the necessary parameters, such as user, group and working directory, in the example, as they can differ from your setup.

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    If you have changed the configuration after the flex.bi service has been started, run the following code: Code Block systemctl daemon-reload

    
    

  • If you don't use any proxy web server to route web requests to flex.bi, you need to enable public access, because by default flex.bi will answer requests only from localhost. In order to do that, in the flexbi.service file, add a comment symbol (#) before this line:

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    ExecStart=/usr/bin/java $JAVA_OPTS "${JAVA_TMPDIR}" -jar flexbi_private.jar -e production "$@"

    
    

    and remove the comment symbol (#) from this line:

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    # ExecStart=/usr/bin/java $JAVA_OPTS "${JAVA_TMPDIR}" -jar flexbi_private.jar -e production -b 0.0.0.0 "$@"

    
    

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• Open the port 8080 in your firewall to allow remote access to the flex.bi server:

  • Run the following command to open the port 8080:

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    firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=8080/tcp

    
    

  • Run the following command to reload the firewall:

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    firewall-cmd --reload

    
    

  • Run the following command to check if the port is open:

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    firewall-cmd --list-ports

    
    

Google Chrome

• If you have installed and configured PhantomJS for previous flex.bi enterprise versions then remove PhantomJS settings from the eazybi.toml file by deleting the following lines:

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  [phantomjs]location = "..."

  
  

• Run the following command to enable Google YUM repository:
  

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  cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo [google-chrome] name=google-chrome - \$basearch baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/\$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub EOF

  
  

• Run the following command to install the package:
  

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  yum install google-chrome-stable

  
  

• After you have installed Google Chrome, please restart flex.bi enterprise. During the startup, flex.bi will detect installed Google Chrome and will start to use it for PDF exports. 
  

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  For additional information regarding Google Chrome installation please see Google Chrome installation instructions.

  
  
  

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Run the flex.bi server

Finally, now you can start the flex.bi service using this code:

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Configure the database connection in the wizard that should open once you connect for the first time using the database parameters from above.

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