Use the following instructions to smoke test HBase and ZooKeeper:
Open the HBase command line tool:
hbase shell
On the HBase shell prompt execute the following commands:
status help create 'usertable', 'family' put 'usertable', 'row01', 'family:col01', 'value1' scan 'usertable' disable 'usertable' drop 'usertable'