Dashboard & Analytics on BOE XI Professional on Linux

Hi experts,
I have boe xi 3.1 sp4 enterprise professional installed on linux.
Now I bought the Performance Manager and Dashboard Builder license key.
I have created an empty schema for the performance manager repository.
On linux server, In the installation folder, there is the folder "Dashboard_Analytics_120".
What do I have to do to startup EMP & Dashboard?
What do I have to do to initialize Peformance Manager repository?
Many Thanks
Camillo

I removed the access to the Performance Management Application but it did niot hide the button
Ron

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