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| title: Cube Build and Job Monitoring |
| categories: tutorial |
| permalink: /docs31/tutorial/cube_build_job.html |
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| ### Cube Build |
| First of all, make sure that you have authority of the cube you want to build. |
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| 1. In `Models` page, click the `Action` drop down button in the right of a cube column and select operation `Build`. |
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| 2. There is a pop-up window after the selection, click `Start Date` and `End date` input box to select date/time range of this incremental cube build. |
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| 4. Click `Submit`, you will see the new job in the `Monitor` page. |
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| 5. The new job is in "pending" status; after a while, it will be started to run and you will see the progress by refresh the web page or click the refresh button. |
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| 6. Wait the job to finish. In the between if you want to discard it, click `Actions` -> `Discard` button. If the job is failed, you can click `Resume` to retry. |
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| 7. After the job is 100% finished, the cube's status becomes to "Ready", means it is ready to serve SQL queries. In the `Model` tab, find the cube, click cube name to expand the section, in the "Storage" tab, it will list the cube segments. Each segment has a start/end time; Its underlying HBase table information is also listed. |
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| If you have more source data, repeat the steps above to build them into the cube. |
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| ### Job Monitoring |
| In the `Monitor` page, click the job detail button to see detail information show in the right side. |
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| The detail information of a job provides a step-by-step record to trace a job. You can hover a step status icon to see the basic status and information. |
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| Click the icon buttons showing in each step to see the details: `Parameters`, `Log`, `MRJob`. |
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| * Log |
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| * MRJob(MapReduce Job) |
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