Login with your credentials and follow the instruction.
Subscribe to the product and click on Continue to configuration button.
Select a Region where you want to launch the VM(such as US East (N.Virginia))
Click on Continue to Launch Button.
Choose Action: You can launch it through EC2 or from Website.(Let’s choose Launch from website)
Optionally change the EC2 instance type. (This defaults to t2.medium instance type, 2 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM.)
Optionally change the network name and subnetwork names.
Select the Security Group. Be sure that whichever Security Group you specify have ports 22 (for ssh), 3389 (for RDP) and 80 (for HTTP) exposed.
Be sure to download the key-pair which is available by default, or you can create the new key-pair and download it.
Click on Launch..
Metabase Data Visualization & BI Platform will begin deploying.
A summary page displays.To see this instance on EC2 Console click on EC2 Console link.
On the EC2 Console page, instance is up and running. To connect to this instance through putty, copy the IPv4 Public IP Address
Open putty, paste the IP address and browse your private key you downloaded while deploying the VM, by going to **SSH- >Auth-> Credentials **, click on Open. Enter ubuntu as userid
Once connected, change the password for ubuntu user using below command
sudo passwd ubuntu
Now the password for ubuntu user is set, you can connect to the VM’s desktop environment from any local Windows Machine using RDP protocol or Linux Machine using Remmina.
From your local windows machine, goto “start” menu, in the search box type and select “Remote desktop connection”. In the “Remote Desktop connection” wizard, copy the public IP address and click connect
This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide the username (e.g “ubuntu”) and the password set in the above “Reset password” step to authenticate. Click OK
Now you are connected to the out of box Metabase Data Visualization & BI Platform environment via Windows Machine.
To connect using RDP via Linux machine, first note the external IP of the VM from VM details page,then from your local Linux machine, goto menu, in the search box type and select “Remmina”.
Note: If you don’t have Remmina installed on your Linux machine, firstInstall Remmina as per your linux distribution.
11. In the “Remmina Remote Desktop Client” wizard, select the RDP option from dropdown and paste the external ip and click enter.
12. This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide “ubuntu” as the userid and the password set in above reset password step to authenticate. Click OK
13. Now you are connected to out of box Metabase Data Visualization & BI Platform environment via Linux machine.
Once the vm is up and running, you can access Metabase setup page by going to http://VM_Public_IP.
Click on Let’s get started.
Configure admin user here
Add your data here
Complete other steps and click on Take me to metabase
Now you are logged-In as admin.
You can add more users by going to Settings and People tab as shown below.
Metabase Directories:
Metabase folder structure is /home/ubuntu/metabase. The folder/file permissions and ownership should not be changed via chmod or chown commands.
metabase-data folder: Home folder for Metabase application
postgres-data folder: Home folder for Postgresql database files
11. In the “Remmina Remote Desktop Client” wizard, select the RDP option from dropdown and paste the external ip and click enter.
12. This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide “ubuntu” as the userid and the password set in above reset password step to authenticate. Click OK
13. Now you are connected to out of box Metabase Data Visualization & BI Platform environment via Linux machine.
