Installing or Upgrading Vertica Pulse

The Vertica Pulse Package requires that Java be installed prior to installing Vertica Pulse.

Vertica Pulse Package Version Requirements

Your server must be running version 7.1.x or later to run Pulse. Pulse must be installed on a Vertica node.

You can download the Vertica server package and from the Vertica Marketplace.

Installation Overview

  1. Verify that your Vertica server version matches your Vertica Pulse version.
  2. Install Java on all Hosts and set the JavaBinaryForUDx Vertica configuration parameter to your Java binary location. For example, using vsql: ALTER DATABASE mydb SET JavaBinaryForUDx = '/usr/bin/java'
  3. Install the Vertica Package on a single node in the cluster. The process is the same for installation or upgrade. You need only install it on a single node, but note that the SQL scripts used to install and uninstall the Pulse functions and the SQL script that creates pulse schema and the user-dictionaries tables are only available from the node on which you installed the Pulse package. The Pulse functions, once installed, are available on all nodes regardless if the package is installed on the node to which you are connecting.
  4. Modify the jvm resource pool so that Pulse performs optimally on your system hardware.