External Tools

IT Business Analytics (ITBA) provides additional external tools to help you with additional tasks, like:

  • ETL Toolkit. You use IDE to develop your content. After the IDE generates all content artifacts, you can use the ITBA application to install the Content Pack, activate the data source, and run the ETL for data loading. But the IDE only supports very basic ETL transformation use cases, so if you want to do additional customization, you must change the Vertica script, and test it yourself. To do so, use the ETL Toolkit. For details, see ETL Toolkit.

  • DWHPeriodGenerate Tool. The purpose of the DWHPeriodGenerate tool is to help you clean the Period dimension data that is generated during installation and also to generate the period according to new settings. For details, see DWHPeriodGenerate Tool .

  • Maintenance Toolkit. The Maintenance Tool helps you (the Administrator) change the Glassfish password, change the domain name, update the Vertica Connection, link to BOE, update the ITBA License, update ITBA IP number, backup and restore Postgres, update the AutoPass host, anc collect Logs and ITBA information. For details, see DWHPeriodGenerate Tool .
  • Log Toolkit. To concentrate logs and ITBA environment information into one location, use the Log Toolkit. For details, see Log Toolkit.
  • LogTool. The LogTool enables you to view, manage, and analyze your logs. IT Business Analytics records the procedures and actions performed by the various components in log files. The log files are usually designed to serve HP Software Support when ITBA does not perform as expected. The default severity threshold level for log files differs per log, but is generally set to either Warning or Error. You can view log files with any text editor.