Chapter 1. Using Ambari Views
Ambari includes the Ambari Views Framework, which allows for developers to create UI components that “plug into” the Ambari Web interface. Ambari includes a built-in set of Views that are pre-deployed for you to use with your cluster. This guide provides information on configuring the built-in set of Views, as well as information on how to configure Ambari Server for “standalone” operation.
Views can be deployed and managed in the “operational” Ambari Server that is operating your cluster. In addition, Views can be deployed and managed in one or more separate “standalone” Ambari Servers. Running “standalone” Ambari Server instances is useful when users who will access views will not have (and should not) have access to that Ambari Server that is operating the cluster. As well, you can run one or more separate Ambari Server instances “standalone” for a scale-out approach to handling a large number of users. See Running Ambari Standalone for more information.
![[Important]](../common/images/admon/important.png) | Important |
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It is critical that you prepare your Ambari Server for hosting views. It is strongly recommended you increase the amount of memory available to your Ambari Server, and that you run additional “standalone” Ambari Servers to host the views. See Preparing Ambari Server for Views and Running Ambari Server Standalone for more information. |
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View | Auto-Created* |
Description |
HDP Stacks |
Required Services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes |
Provides a visual way to configure YARN capacity scheduler queue capacity. |
HDP 2.3 or later |
YARN | |
| Yes |
Allows you to browse the HDFS file system. |
HDP 2.2 or later |
HDFS | |
| Yes |
Exposes a way to find, author, execute and debug Hive queries. |
HDP 2.3 or later |
HDFS, YARN, Hive | |
| No |
Supports migrating Hue artifacts to an Ambari View. This View is Tech Preview |
HDP 2.4 or later |
Hue | |
| No |
Provides a way to author and execute Pig Scripts. |
HDP 2.2 or later |
HDFS, Hive, Pig | |
| No |
A tool to help deploy and manage Slider-based applications. This view has been marked deprecated. |
HDP 2.2 or later |
HDFS, YARN | |
| SmartSense | Yes |
Allows you to capture bundles, set bundle capture schedule, and view and download captured bundles. |
HDP 2.0 or later |
SmartSense |
| Storm | No |
Supports monitoring Storm cluster status and topologies. |
HDP 2.5 or later |
Storm |
| Yes |
View information related to Tez jobs that are executing on the cluster. |
HDP 2.2.4.2 or later |
HDFS, YARN, Tez | |
| Workflow Designer | No |
This View is Tech Preview |
HDP 2.4 or later |
Oozie |
| Zeppelin | Yes |
This View is Tech Preview |
HDP 2.5 or later |
Zeppelin |
Ambari "Auto-creates" some views, if the service utilized by that view is added to the cluster. "Auto-create" means that Ambari creates and instance of the view and displays that instance to users via Ambari web, automatically. For other services, an Ambari Admin must create the view instance. For example, if YARN service is added to the cluster, the YARN Queue Manager View displays to Ambari Web users.
Learning More About Views
You can learn more about the Views Framework at the following resources:
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Resource |
URL |
|---|---|
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Administering Views |
Hortonworks Data Platform Apache Ambari Administration - Managing Views |
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Ambari Project Wiki | |
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Example Views |
https://github.com/apache/ambari/tree/trunk/ambari-views/examples |
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View Contributions |