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Back Up Your Ranger Configuration Directories

Ranger Admin

mv /etc/ranger/admin/conf /etc/ranger/admin/conf.saved

ln -s /usr/hdp/current/ranger-admin/conf /etc/ranger/admin/conf

ls -la /etc/ranger/admin/

Ranger Usersync

mv /etc/ranger/usersync/conf /etc/ranger/usersync/conf.saved

ln -s /usr/hdp/current/ranger-usersync/conf /etc/ranger/usersync/conf

ls -la /etc/ranger/usersync

On the Ranger host, update the Ranger Admin install properties file:

vi /usr/hdp/2.3.x.y-z/ranger-admin/install.properties

using the values from /usr/hdp/2.2.x.y-z/ranger-admin/install.properties.

The following table lists the HDP 2.2 property strings and the HDP 2.3 property labels for Ranger:

HDP 2.2 install.properties	HDP 2.3 Ambari Web UI > Property Names
DB_FLAVOR	DB Settings > DB FLAVOR
SQL_CONNECTOR_JAR	Admin Settings > Sql Connector Jar location
db_root_user	DB Settings > Ranger DB root user
db_root_password	DB Settings > Ranger DB root password
db_host	DB Settings > Ranger DB host
db_name	DB Settings > Ranger DB name
db_user	DB Settings > Ranger DB username
db_password	DB Settings > Ranger DB password
audit_db_name	DB Settings > Ranger Audit DB name
audit_db_user	DB Settings > Ranger Audit DB username
audit_db_password	DB Settings > Ranger Audit DB password
policymgr_external_url	Ranger Settings > External URL

Copy the SQL_CONNECTOR_JAR from the location specified in in install.properties to the following directory:

/usr/hdp/2.3.x.y-z/ranger-admin/ews/lib

Copy the ranger-admin-default-site.xml file:

cp /usr/hdp/2.3.x.y-z/ranger-admin/ews/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/conf.dist/ranger-admin-default-site.xml /usr/hdp/2.3.x.y-z/ranger-admin/conf

Copy the security-applicationContext.xml file:

cp /usr/hdp/2.3.x.y-z/ranger-admin/ews/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/conf.dist/security-applicationContext.xml /usr/hdp/2.3.x.y-z/ranger-admin/conf

On the Ranger admin/ Ranger user sync host, export the RANGER_ADMIN_HOME and JAVA_HOME environment variables.

export RANGER_ADMIN_HOME=/usr/hdp/2.3.x.y-z/ranger-admin

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk64/jdk1.7.0_67

On the Ranger host, run the following command:

chown -R ranger:ranger /usr/hdp/2.3.2.x-y/ranger-admin/

On the Ranger host, run the Ranger Admin dba_script and db_setup python scripts, as follows:

python /usr/hdp/2.3.x.y-z/ranger-admin/dba_script.py -q

python /usr/hdp/2.3.x.y-z/ranger-admin/db_setup.py

From Ambari Web UI, select Ranger > Summary and click on the Ranger Admin component link. Choose Start from the Ranger Admin drop-down menu.

Choose Ok to confirm Ranger Admin start.

On the Ranger host, run the dba_setup patch script, as follows:

python /usr/hdp/2.3.x.y-z/ranger-admin/db_setup.py -javapatch

Create symbolic links and overwrite any existing destination files for the Ranger UserSync service.

ln -sf /usr/hdp/2.3.x.y-z/ranger-usersync/ranger-usersync-services.sh /usr/bin/ranger-usersync

From Ambari Web UI, select Ranger > Summary and click on the Ranger UserSync component link. Choose Start from the Ranger UserSync drop-down menu.

Choose Ok to confirm Ranger UserSync start.

From Ambari Web UI, select Ranger and choose Restart All from the Service Actions menu.

After Ranger has started, select Run Service Check from the Service Actions menu. Confirm the Service Check passes.

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