The Ambari 2.1 release includes the following new features and improvements:
Table 1.1. Core Ambari
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Feature |
Description |
|---|---|
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Customizable Dashboards | Ability to customize the Metric widgets displayed on HDFS, YARN and HBase on Service Summary pages. Includes ability for Operators to create new widgets and share widgets in a Widget Library. |
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Guided Configs | Service Configs for HDFS, YARN, Hive and HBase included new UI controls (such as slider-bars) and an improved organization/layout. |
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Manual Kerberos | When enabling Kerberos, ability to perform setup Kerberos manually. The user |
| New User Views | Hive, Pig, Files and Capacity Scheduler user views are included by default with Ambari. |
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Rack Awareness | Ability to set Rack ID on hosts. Ambari will generate a topology script automatically and set the configuration for HDFS. |
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Alerts Log Appender | Log alert state change events to ambari-alerts.log. |
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JDK 1.8 | Added support for Oracle JDK 1.8. This is only supported with HDP 2.3 stack. |
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RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 7 |
Added support for RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux 7. This is only supported with HDP 2.3 stack. |
Table 1.2. HDP Stack
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Feature |
Description |
|---|---|
| HDP 2.3 Stack | Added support for HDP 2.3 Stack. |
| Added Support for HDP Components |
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| Storm Nimbus HA | Ability to add 1+ Nimbus Server component instances. |
| Tez Service Check | Added service check for Tez Service. |
Table 1.3. Extensibility
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Feature |
Description |
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Blueprints: Host Discovery | Ability to automatically add hosts to a blueprint-created cluster. |
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Views Framework: Auto-create | Ability to specify how to automatically create a view instance. |
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Views Framework: Auto-configure | Ability to specify how to automatically configuration a view instance based on the cluster being managed by Ambari. |
