Installing JDBC Drivers for Interactive Dashboard¶

Interactive Dashboard work with JDBC sources. The appropriate JDBC jars have to be installed.

Below are the steps for installing the JDBC driver for Interactive Dashboards:

Download the JDBC jar file¶

Download the JDBC jar file for the Database you are looking to connect to.

Under the Fire installation directory, there is fire-server-lib directory.

Copy the downloaded JDBC jar file into it.

Restart Fire with ./run-fire-server.sh restart

Fire does not need to be restarted.

MySQL connector can be downloaded from : https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
After downloading untar it with : tar xvf mysql-connector-java-5.1.46.tar.gz
After untaring the jdbc jar file is available in the directory
Use the jar file (mysql-connector-java-5.1.46.jar) for installation in Fire