Installing ClickPack?

[chulett]

I need to get ClickPack installed for one of the developers here on our dev server and I don't know beans about it other than what it purports to do.

At this point I'm wondering if there is more to it than simply mounting the cdrom and running the 'install.sh' script in the 'clickpack' directory? I have to walk an SA through this and I've never installed this thing before. The script doesn't seem ask many questions, so maybe this won't be too painful.

Is this one of those installs that, even though they can be done by the 'admin' user, are better off being done as root?

Any 'gotchas' that people are aware of?

Thanks!

[vmcburney]

It comes with a couple plugins so you need to run the install.sh and then run the register plugin. I think you can do that from the Manager or the command line. It also has some sample jobs that you need to import. The samples are very important as the log reader has some funny codes and the example job helps clarify it. There are also a bunch of transformation routines for converting URL strings that come in that import.

The best part of the clickpack is the log reader stage that takes a standard web server log files and parses it for actions and URLs. Kind of like a sequential file stage but with lots of automated parsing functions.

[chulett]

Yah, the addition of this seems to enable using Perl from your DataStage jobs, which is what it uses to do the log parsing from what I've read. I'll see about importing the .dsx they have provided, but don't recall seeing documented anywhere the need to register any plugins - even though that does make sense.

Any idea where the plugins are listed, how I'll know which ones to register?

[vmcburney]

I think the install.sh unpacks the plugins to a subdirectory of the install file. Have a look at the script to see what it is doing.