1. What's Changed in Ambari-1.6.0

The following changes were made in Ambari-1.6.0:

 

Table 5.1. Ambari 1.6.0 Changes

Apache JIRA

Support Tracking

Summary

AMBARI-5818

BUG-17797

Decommission of RegionServer failed

AMBARI-5814

BUG-17989

Ambari set the value of hive.tez.container.size too high in hive-site.xml

AMBARI-5807

BUG-17943

MapReduce Service Check fails

AMBARI-5804

BUG-17925

ATS start failed with custom usernames

AMBARI-5796

BUG-17924

Install of services failed (Blueprint; HDP 1.3)

AMBARI-5793

BUG-17847

When posting blueprint with Nagios and Oozie password configs are not validated

AMBARI-5779

BUG-17825

Recommission a DN fails when https is enabled in Ambari server

AMBARI-5778

BUG-17641

In some upgrade scenarios, Ambari Web's persist key-value store state causes the UI to act unpredictably

AMBARI-5776

BUG-17891

ambari-server log has lots of ERROR jmx

AMBARI-5773

BUG-17791

Hive check log causing TTransportException errors

AMBARI-5767

BUG-16629

Blueprint delete is broken

AMBARI-5765

BUG-17828

Views: Files + Pig need to remove default instances from view.xml

AMBARI-5764

BUG-13405

API Docs : Views

AMBARI-5753

BUG-17823

Storm fails to start after disabling security

AMBARI-5752

BUG-17800

Cluster tab should not show debian repo URL

AMBARI-5744

BUG-17674

HADOOP_HOME is not set in hadoop-env.sh

AMBARI-5742

BUG-17535

View: Files support for optional username view parameter

AMBARI-5736

BUG-17670

View: Pig bug fixes and UI cleanup, Part 2

AMBARI-5735

BUG-17737

HDP deployment failed in CentOS5

AMBARI-5730

BUG-17193

Space Error in container-executor.cfg

AMBARI-5729

BUG-17694

Decommission issues in secure cluster

AMBARI-5727

BUG-17706

View: Files fontawesome not loading

AMBARI-5726

BUG-17420

Adding Oozie failed at service check

AMBARI-5725

BUG-17637

hive-schema-0.10.0 and 0.12.0.postgres.sql missing

AMBARI-5724

BUG-17602

View: Pig bug fixes and UI cleanup, Part 1

AMBARI-5723

BUG-17712

IllegalStateException when provisioning cluster via blueprint during password validation

AMBARI-5722

BUG-17704

All Services Fail To Deploy Due To Agent Parsing Exception

AMBARI-5719

BUG-17515

View: Files should not hard code REST API with view name + instance name

AMBARI-5718

BUG-17592

View: Pig should not hard code REST API with view name + instance name

AMBARI-5717

BUG-17698

Installer: repo URLs are not saved after customization if "skip" option is chosen

AMBARI-5716

BUG-17672

Disable Security: Client install tasks fail for start all services request

AMBARI-5714

BUG-17650

Views list not loading in Ambari Web

AMBARI-5713

BUG-17500

Add Service wizard: Hive Server fails to start

AMBARI-5711

BUG-17082

'Background operations' window displayed after attempt to switch HBase RegionServer to 'Decommission' state

AMBARI-5710

BUG-17571

WebHCat (WebHCat Server) start failed

AMBARI-5708

BUG-17384

Stacks API: GET call on StackServices resource fails

AMBARI-5706

BUG-17598

Provide basic validation for cluster create via a blueprint

AMBARI-5705

BUG-17691

Error while installing JDK on agent

AMBARI-5705

BUG-17461

Fail to install hive client with error: Fail: Execution of '/bin/sh -c 'cd /usr/lib/ambari-agent/ && curl -kf --retry 5 http://hadoop1:8080/resources/DBConnectionVerification.jar -o DBConnectionVerification.jar'' returned 22

AMBARI-5704

BUG-17451

Pig View Cleanup

AMBARI-5702

BUG-17437

Ability to work on a view as "exploded" to support UI dev

AMBARI-5697

BUG-17299

When restart hive service from Ambari Web UI, it fails with the error: cat: /var/run/hive/hive.pid: No such file or directory

AMBARI-5690

BUG-17127

Allow universal password to be specified when provisioning via a blueprint

AMBARI-5687

BUG-17504

Cluster gateway is overloaded and works very slow

AMBARI-5684

BUG-16965

Provide /etc dir in a Service definition for Service-specific files

AMBARI-5681

BUG-16342

Add Nagios alert if HDFS last checkpoint time exceeds threshold

AMBARI-5678

BUG-17457

Going back from review causes configs alerts

AMBARI-5677

BUG-17438

Ability to handle name + version views and view instances

AMBARI-5674

BUG-17325

Supervisor goes into stopped state after deploying cluster from blueprint

AMBARI-5672

BUG-17182

Unnecessary 'Base URL' field on SelectStackPage 1.6.0

AMBARI-5670

BUG-17507

Ambari Storm uses wrong storm_jass.conf location

AMBARI-5669

BUG-17456

Alternatives issues has error message (missing translation)

AMBARI-5664

BUG-17261

host details page top margin too big

AMBARI-5662

BUG-17330

change heartbeat lost text

AMBARI-5661

BUG-17337

YARN and MR2 failed to start after upgrade

AMBARI-5658

BUG-17311

Ambari does not link to the new HTML NameNode UI

AMBARI-5657

BUG-17300

Ambari layout issues on IE 9

AMBARI-5656

BUG-17411

Views: do not let the user click on the Views icon in the top nav

AMBARI-5655

BUG-17260

when no views, show "No Views"

AMBARI-5654

BUG-17401

Kill border that is showing up around Views panel

AMBARI-5653

BUG-17380

upgradestack only handles specific OSs

AMBARI-5652

BUG-17291

Quick Links does not work if both NameNodes are in Standby

AMBARI-5650

BUG-17227

postgres-CREATE DDL should only prepare schemas if possible

AMBARI-5649

BUG-17469

Ambari setup with MySQL as AmbariDB fails

AMBARI-5649

BUG-17468

Ambari setup with OracleDB on external host fails

AMBARI-5649

BUG-17348

Add postgres external as separate option in ambari-server.py

AMBARI-5647

BUG-17341

On empty jobs page, new queries are not showing up

AMBARI-5646

BUG-17347

Jobs don’t show up as links for a moment when page is visited

AMBARI-5645

BUG-17700

(Apache) AMBARI-5645 Ooozie Service Check fails intermittently

AMBARI-5644

BUG-17329

postgres option should not expect psql client is available

AMBARI-5643

BUG-17367

Add Services is disabled after upgrading the stack from 2.0 to 2.1

AMBARI-5642

BUG-17364

Ambari Views : NPE deploying view

AMBARI-5636

BUG-17339

Unit test and refactoring for controllers/main/service/info/config.js part 1

AMBARI-5634

BUG-16437

Some components of Storm were not started after added of Nagios and Ganglia

AMBARI-5633

BUG-16845

Start Services command gets stuck for about 30 mins

AMBARI-5625

BUG-17282

ambari-server setup does not allow to specify existing Postgres db through command line option --database

AMBARI-5623

BUG-16766

GET request on cluster resource gives psql exception

AMBARI-5617

BUG-16921

Apache Code Submission for Ambari Files View

AMBARI-5616

BUG-16920

Apache Code Submission for Ambari Pig View

AMBARI-5615

BUG-17212

Start of services fails if installing only HDFS+ZK

AMBARI-5614

BUG-16791

Unit tests for steps 8

AMBARI-5612

BUG-17273

Unit tests for object_utils, date, ui_effects, updater

AMBARI-5611

BUG-17176

Datanode and other components fail to start without YARN installed

AMBARI-5609

BUG-17229

UI unit tests for admin and alerts controllers

AMBARI-5607, AMBARI-5645

BUG-17514

Teradata request include AMBARI-5607 and AMBARI-5645 in 1.6.0

AMBARI-5607

BUG-17574

Yarn Nodemanager Metrics only update every few minutes

AMBARI-5604

BUG-17226

Postgres should be option 4 in setup, not 2

AMBARI-5603

BUG-17183

Ambari version is unknown during installer via UI

AMBARI-5599

BUG-17241

Switching between existing configs is not working in API

AMBARI-5598

BUG-16897

Security wizard: Host progress in the pop-up does not update

AMBARI-5597

BUG-16627

host group field name is not consistent across BP and cluster create body

AMBARI-5587

BUG-16903

UI unit tests for host controllers

AMBARI-5586

BUG-17068

Strange behaviour of progress bar after successful login

AMBARI-5581

BUG-17155

create HDP 1.3 stack

AMBARI-5578

BUG-17126

Rename stacks endpoints stackServices and serviceComponents

AMBARI-5577

BUG-17092

Turn Off Maintenance Mode for HDFS does not work (problems with ambari-agent)

AMBARI-5575

BUG-16792

Unit tests for steps 9 (with refactor)

AMBARI-5574

BUG-17026

Need some logging when JSON parsing throws an error

AMBARI-5573

BUG-17170

UI does not redirect on 'Dashboard' page after login

AMBARI-5572

BUG-17040

Hive Metastore start command fails if hive client is not co-hosted with hive metastore

AMBARI-5571

BUG-17080

Restart option is enabled for components in 'Decommissioned' state but it should not

AMBARI-5570

BUG-17120

MySQL Server install failed during deployment, suse11

AMBARI-5569

BUG-17169

Fix UI Unit tests

AMBARI-5568

BUG-17042

Security wizard freezes at last step

AMBARI-5565

BUG-16984

New dashboard UI tweaks

AMBARI-5564, AMBARI-5622, AMBARI-5815

BUG-17133

'Upgrading schema' failed during upgrading to 1.6.0

AMBARI-5558

BUG-17028

Navigating back from Host page to Heatmaps page is broken

AMBARI-5555

BUG-17117

NameNode HA wizard: Review page appears blank

AMBARI-5553

BUG-12276

Update /stacks endpoint to expose cardinality and dependency information

AMBARI-5551

BUG-17070

Add Host: checkbox "client" without upper case letter

AMBARI-5549

BUG-16427

Add Existing Postgres 9.x Database option for Ambari db

AMBARI-5547

BUG-16907

Exclude /boot from the mount points to use for suggesting directories

AMBARI-5543

BUG-16789

Unit tests for steps 6

AMBARI-5541

BUG-17062

JS error upon revisiting Install, Start and Test page

AMBARI-5540

BUG-17073

Add unit tests and refactor controllers/main/service/item.js

AMBARI-5538

BUG-16625

Nagios stale_config isn't set if nagios_web_password or nagios_contactc changed

AMBARI-5536

BUG-17058

Confirm Hosts page UI layout issues

AMBARI-5534

BUG-16995

Experimental control not working on new top-nav

AMBARI-5532

BUG-17022

Bootstrap fails on Ubuntu

AMBARI-5531

BUG-16955

Switch SQL standard authorization to be off by default

AMBARI-5529

BUG-16982

Hive + Oozie postgres option should say PostgreSQL

AMBARI-5528

BUG-17018

UI unit tests and refactoring for controller of Add Host wizard

AMBARI-5527

BUG-16558

Add ssl option to configs.sh

AMBARI-5526

BUG-16261

Filter on Customize services page works incorrectly

AMBARI-5524

BUG-17013

Unit tests for number_utils, string_utils, validator and misc files

AMBARI-5523

BUG-17017

Jobs controller not critical js error when "No jobs to display"

AMBARI-5522

BUG-17014

Jobs table is rendered incorrectly when there are no jobs available

AMBARI-5520

BUG-17015

Fix UI Unit tests

AMBARI-5516

BUG-15672

Change web version mismatch wording to make the refresh op more clear

AMBARI-5515

BUG-16744

Not all HIVE default configuration values are provided in stack definition

AMBARI-5514

BUG-16937

Flatten Ambari UI including box, dropdown. etc

AMBARI-5512

BUG-16855

Move wizard and HA wizard gets stuck on any deploy step

AMBARI-5511

BUG-16713

Misleading hard coded command in paragraph 2 on step "Manual commands" of "Move Master" wizard

AMBARI-5510

BUG-15387

NPE in ganglia property provider

AMBARI-5509

BUG-16623

"Check Falcon" failed after disable security without pre-configured Kerberos

AMBARI-5508

BUG-16793

Unit tests for steps 10

AMBARI-5507

BUG-16948

Refactor of Flume service view related to metrics.

AMBARI-5505

BUG-16341

HBase in Blueprint results in error

AMBARI-5504

BUG-16146

Views: Dynamic Views menu (interface)

AMBARI-5504

BUG-16145

Views: Ambari Web Layout Update

AMBARI-5503

BUG-12558

Review upgrade helper script for Baikal

AMBARI-5498

BUG-16892

Selecting agent in flume agents table should show 3 additional graph sections

AMBARI-5496

BUG-16906

unit tests for MR/YARN failing on Jenkins

AMBARI-5493

BUG-16782

UI unit tests for disable, security progress, high availability controllers

AMBARI-5492

BUG-16788

Unit tests for steps 5

AMBARI-5490

BUG-16902

Fix UI Unit tests

AMBARI-5489

BUG-16893

Security wizard: browser refresh stops the execution of the wizard on deploy step

AMBARI-5486

BUG-16723

Add tests for OSCheck module

AMBARI-5485

BUG-16048

Ambari should Manage JobHistory Heap Size

AMBARI-5484

BUG-16564

When ATS is not running, Jobs page just shows "Loading..." forever

AMBARI-5480

BUG-15195

There's significant lag for the Restart Indicators to go away after restarting

AMBARI-5478

BUG-16821

Flume configurations should not have 'flume-agent' type

AMBARI-5477

BUG-15821

Flume host component should have stop/start/restart actions

AMBARI-5476

BUG-16469

Change permissions for /var/log/hadoop/mapred/userlogs/*

AMBARI-5474

BUG-16630

Unit tests for steps 3-4

AMBARI-5473

BUG-16698

Create configs tab for Flume service

AMBARI-5472

BUG-16729

MySQL database installed by Ambari does not work with Streaming ingest

AMBARI-5472

BUG-16706

Use SchemaTool in Hive and move to schematool

AMBARI-5471

BUG-16618

UI unit tests for misc and security controllers

AMBARI-5470

BUG-16759

Error on Step 9 on Deploy

AMBARI-5469

BUG-16686

FLUME_HANDLER should be not be master component

AMBARI-5467

BUG-15955

Flume: Add processes endpoint

AMBARI-5464

BUG-16277

Add unit tests for jobs controllers/views

AMBARI-5462

BUG-15085

Allow host group scoped configuration to be specified in blueprint

AMBARI-5461

BUG-16694

Flume agents table in service summary view should be sortable

AMBARI-5457

BUG-16673

Host Checks: alternatives check results are not surfaced in Host Check popup

AMBARI-5456

BUG-16708

Fix UI Unit tests

AMBARI-5454

BUG-15816

Flume service summary page should show list of flume agents and status

AMBARI-5451

BUG-16614

Supervisor Start failed after install cluster

AMBARI-5446

BUG-16591

Upgrade Helper should add ATS when upgrading directly to 2.1.

AMBARI-5445

BUG-15804

When new host components are created thru API, some indication should be given that Nagios has to be restarted

AMBARI-5443

BUG-16474

Assign Masters Page: Wrap hostname string value for text fields

AMBARI-5442

BUG-16616

Tests coverage for helper.js and component.js

AMBARI-5441

BUG-15714

Flume: process reporting mechanism

AMBARI-5440

BUG-16621

isAccessAvailable function need to be changed regarding changes in stackDependedComponents function

AMBARI-5439

BUG-16615

Add Service Wizard Step "assign slaves" is broken

AMBARI-5438

BUG-16271

Add unit tests to configuration and update controllers

AMBARI-5437

BUG-16603

ServiceComponent metadata on the client should not be deleted if Stack doesn't support Service

AMBARI-5434

BUG-16617

HDFS test_service_check.TestServiceCheck failed

AMBARI-5428

BUG-16546

failing testGenerateManifest, test_overwrite_repos

AMBARI-5427

BUG-14179

Usability: Cleanup database connection checking output during setup

AMBARI-5426

BUG-16164

Jobs page: js error on switching browser tabs

AMBARI-5423

BUG-14742

Remove hard coded Service, Component mapping from LiveStatus.py

AMBARI-5422

BUG-16541

UI unit tests for cluster and BO controller

AMBARI-5421

BUG-16454

Some unit test fail depending on timezone

AMBARI-5420

BUG-16537

Server fails due to old syntactic in metainfo.xml (<osType></osType> to <osFamily></osFamily>)

AMBARI-5419

BUG-15377

'100%' string out of box when installed done

AMBARI-5418

BUG-15379

BGO window filters should not persist the selected values

AMBARI-5416

BUG-15815

Add 'Flume Agents Live' widget to Ambari dashboard

AMBARI-5411

BUG-16151

Karma integration

AMBARI-5410

BUG-15819

Provide Flume service actions

AMBARI-5409

BUG-16404

Select all option on Confirm Hosts occupies a lot of space

AMBARI-5408

BUG-16288

Flume: Verify and fixes for Ganglia monitoring and metrics

AMBARI-5405

BUG-16434

Cover main app with unit tests

AMBARI-5404

BUG-16432

Fix UI Unit tests

AMBARI-5402

BUG-16401

Remove classic dashboard view from Ambari

AMBARI-5396

BUG-16270

test_kill_process_with_children unit test error on Jenkins

AMBARI-5395

BUG-16357

Flume client model should be created

AMBARI-5394

BUG-16263

Incorrect word wrap of IDs in Jobs table in Firefox

AMBARI-5393

BUG-16334

Stop using App.get('currentServerTime'). We should use App.dateTime() only

AMBARI-5391

BUG-16339

Unit tests for steps 0-2

AMBARI-5389

BUG-15871

Stack service component data should be dynamically fetched from server

AMBARI-5383

BUG-16322

Ambari installs lzo RPMs when lzo is not listed in io.compression.codecs

AMBARI-5379

BUG-15814

Add Flume service to installer UI configs

AMBARI-5378

BUG-15712

Flume agent-side scripts and tests

AMBARI-5377

BUG-15813

Add Flume service to Ambari installer UI

AMBARI-5375

BUG-16176

Views: Dynamic Views menu (query views from server)

AMBARI-5373

BUG-16098

metainfo.xml should support os families not os types

AMBARI-5371

BUG-15683

Dashboard: dashboard actions do not work for non-admin users

AMBARI-5349

BUG-16144

Views: Embedding View with iFrame

AMBARI-5347

BUG-16155

BUG-6013 Add UI unit tests

AMBARI-5337

BUG-16010

BUG-6013 Add unit tests to Confirm Hosts and Deploy step

AMBARI-5303

BUG-15498

Some changes to OSCheck

AMBARI-5284

BUG-15593

Unit test test_start (TestAmbariServer.TestAmbariServer) fails intermittently

AMBARI-5234

BUG-15640

Add new Maintenance States to support different operation levels

AMBARI-5218

BUG-14875

Strange behavior of collapsed panels during removing properties

AMBARI-5206

BUG-15245

proxy user settings need to be set when provisioning via a blueprint

AMBARI-5199

BUG-15165

Replace $.ajax with App.ajax anywhere where it's possible

AMBARI-5120

BUG-14917

Service Start: Clients are installed on hosts in maintenance mode

AMBARI-4992

BUG-11782

Sometimes cluster installation pauses for few minutes between tasks

AMBARI-4979

BUG-14010

Limiting Ambari version to 3 digits

AMBARI-4921

BUG-15500

Blueprint not setting configs with empty default values

AMBARI-4448, AMBARI-5518

BUG-11833

Some of the configuration parameters do not have description

AMBARI-4205

BUG-15769

Add Existing Postgres Database option for Hive and Oozie Database during Ambari cluster install

AMBARI-3962

BUG-8298

Ambari starting SNMPD during the installation, but not set it to autostart on boot

AMBARI-3474, AMBARI-5387

BUG-9519

Stack definition does not provide global properties with empty values

AMBARI-1783

BUG-6083

Cluster Blueprints for Ambari