ERROR - Alfresco Audit Analysis and Reporting Plugin (A.A.A.R.)

[joseph]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to install the Alfresco Audit Analysis and Reporting Plugin (A.A.A.R.) version 4.5 on Pentaho 7.0 and I get an error.

Reviewing the error log shows the following line:

2016-12-15 17:16:42,054 ERROR [org.pentaho.di] 2016/12/15 17:16:42 - Abort job - ERROR (version 7.0.0.0-25, build 1 from 2016-11-05 15.35 .36 by buildguy): Plugin did not contain ID

Please, I would like to know how to solve this problem. Or be able to know how to install old versions manually.

Thank you very much.

[ddraper]

‌ Tagging you in this thread as you may be able to help here!

[fcorti]

Thank you Dave Draper‌.

Hi Jose,

As you can see, I did not announce the 4.5 version because I want to test it more with the new 7 version. In any case I'll go through it in the next days and let you know here.
Please keep me in the loop with your tests, I'm always interested. 😉

[joseph]

Hello Francesco and Dave,

Thank you very much for replying, I would like to know which versions of AAAR and Pentaho are compatible, and which are the direct download links to be able to implement them.

Thank you very much.

[fcorti]

Hi Jose, below the right place to check.

http://fcorti.com/alfresco-audit-analysis-reporting/aaar-description-of-the-solution/aaar-alfresco-p... 

[joseph]

Thank you very much! Currently I have installed the version of Alfresco CE 5.0.d, according to the list that you sent me the correct version to be able to install is:

- Pentaho 6.1
- AAAR 4.4

You could help me by indicating the download links for each of the products.

Thank you so much for all your support!

[fcorti]

Sorry Jose, but the Alfresco CE 5.0.x is supported on aaar 4.5.

In any case you are free to choose the preferred environment according to the compatibility matrix.

On the other side, I always suggest to move to the latest version, always more stable and enhanced.

Anyway... if you want to find the pentaho‌ releases, you can find them at Pentaho - Browse Files at SourceForge.net.

As described in the installation documentation (http://fcorti.com/alfresco-audit-analysis-reporting/aaar-how-to-install/aaar-prerequites/ ) you need:

• Pentaho Data Integration (Pentaho - Browse /Data Integration at SourceForge.net ).
• Pentaho Business Analytics Platform (Pentaho - Browse /Business Intelligence Server at SourceForge.net ).

Last but not least, I would like to share that in the latest days I'm experiencing some issues with the automatic downloads from SourceForge, using the Pentaho Marketplace.

This is to say that you can:

• Manually download the aaar‌ 4.5 from here https://sourceforge.net/projects/aaar/files/v4.5/AAAR_v4.5.zip/download 
• Extract the zip file into the "<pentaho-server>/pentaho-solutions/system" folder and restart Pentaho Server.
• Follow the documentation again from here: http://fcorti.com/alfresco-audit-analysis-reporting/aaar-how-to-install/aaar-get/ 

Please let me know how it goes...

[joseph]

Hi Francesco,

We are currently working with Alfresco and we are considering using A.A.A.R but we have the following problem in an Alfresco site with 35000 members:

The activities that appear in our dashlet "My Activities" don't last too long because when a user generates a new activity, a new feed entry is created for each user that belongs to the site. This is the reason why once the table that contains the feed entries is full, the older entries end up being deleted.

Because of this problem we are worried that we might lose information, so we want to know if A.A.A.R read the activities in real time or if they are migrated and stored.

I'll be waiting for your answer.

Thanks in advance.

[fcorti]

Hi Jose,

AAAR extract informations in a separate database.
Please check below a brief introduction to the Data Marts:

A.A.A.R. data marts - Francesco Corti 

With the next AAAR release (5.0 renamed as Alflytics) the user storage will be more complete and enhanced.

[fcorti]

Hi,

I suppose you are talking about the Alfresco audit trail, when you mention "activity".

If my assumption is correct, Alfresco trace all the audits in a (huge) table and AAAR extract all the data in a batch, usually during the night time (or once a week, depending on your needs).

I imagine the issue in your case is the dashlet extraction, not the audits tracked into the audit trail (I suggest you to investigate and be sure about it).

I would like to submit to your attention this post, talking about how to face (and solve) the "audit explosion" with AAAR.

How to solve the audit data explosion in Alfresco 

I hope this will help you.