Apache Ambari Operations
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Modify HDFS Configurations

You may need to modify your hdfs-site configuration and/or your core-site configuration.

Prerequisites

Check whether you need to modify your hdfs-site configuration, by executing the following command on the Ambari Server host:

/var/lib/ambari-server/resources/scripts/configs.sh -u <AMBARI_USER> -p <AMBARI_PW> -port <AMBARI_PORT> get localhost <CLUSTER_NAME> hdfs-site

If you see any of the following properties, you must delete them from your configuration.

  • dfs.nameservices

  • dfs.client.failover.proxy.provider.<NAMESERVICE_ID>

  • dfs.ha.namenodes.<NAMESERVICE_ID>

  • dfs.ha.fencing.methods

  • dfs.ha.automatic-failover.enabled

  • dfs.namenode.http-address.<NAMESERVICE_ID>.nn1

  • dfs.namenode.http-address.<NAMESERVICE_ID>.nn2

  • dfs.namenode.rpc-address.<NAMESERVICE_ID>.nn1

  • dfs.namenode.rpc-address.<NAMESERVICE_ID>.nn2

  • dfs.namenode.shared.edits.dir

  • dfs.journalnode.edits.dir

  • dfs.journalnode.http-address

  • dfs.journalnode.kerberos.internal.spnego.principal

  • dfs.journalnode.kerberos.principal

  • dfs.journalnode.keytab.file

    Where <NAMESERVICE_ID> is the NameService ID you created when you ran the Enable NameNode HA wizard.

To modify your hdfs-site configuration:

Steps

  1. On the Ambari Server host, execute the following for each property you found:

    /var/lib/ambari-server/resources/scripts/configs.sh -u <AMBARI_USER> -p <AMBARI_PW> -port <AMBARI_PORT> delete localhost <CLUSTER_NAME> hdfs-site property_name

    Replace property_name with the name of each of the properties to be deleted.

  2. Verify that all of the properties have been deleted:

    /var/lib/ambari-server/resources/scripts/configs.sh -u <AMBARI_USER> -p <AMBARI_PW> -port <AMBARI_PORT> get localhost <CLUSTER_NAME> hdfs-site

    None of the properties listed above should be present.

  3. Determine whether you must modify your core-site configuration:

    /var/lib/ambari-server/resources/scripts/configs.sh -u <AMBARI_USER> -p <AMBARI_PW> -port <AMBARI_PORT> get localhost <CLUSTER_NAME> core-site

  4. If you see the property ha.zookeeper.quorum, delete it:

    /var/lib/ambari-server/resources/scripts/configs.sh -u <AMBARI_USER> -p <AMBARI_PW> -port <AMBARI_PORT> delete localhost <CLUSTER_NAME> core-site ha.zookeeper.quorum

  5. If the property fs.defaultFS is set to the NameService ID, revert it to its non-HA value:

    "fs.defaultFS":"hdfs://<name-service-id>" The property fs.defaultFS needs to be modified as it points to a NameService ID "fs.defaultFS":"hdfs://<nn01.mycompany.com>"

    You need not change the property fs.defaultFS, because it points to a specific NameNode, not to a NameService ID.

  6. Revert the property fs.defaultFS to the NameNode host value:

    /var/lib/ambari-server/resources/scripts/configs.sh -u <AMBARI_USER> -p <AMBARI_PW> -port <AMBARI_PORT> set localhost <CLUSTER_NAME> core-site fs.defaultFS hdfs://<NAMENODE_HOSTNAME>

  7. Verify that the core-site properties are now properly set:

    /var/lib/ambari-server/resources/scripts/configs.sh -u <AMBARI_USER> -p <AMBARI_PW> -port <AMBARI_PORT> get localhost <CLUSTER_NAME> core-site

    The property fs.defaultFS should be the NameNode host and the property ha.zookeeper.quorum should not appear.