If you do not want to have Ambari manage the rack information for hosts, you can use a custom topology script. To do this, you mustcreate your own topology script and manage distributing the script to all hosts. Note also that because Ambari will have no access to host rack information, heatmaps will not display by rack in Ambari Web.

To set the Rack ID using a custom topology script:

Steps

You can now manage the rack mapping information for your script outside of Ambari.