Hortonworks Data Platform

Installing HDP Manually

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2013-07-31

Abstract

The Hortonworks Data Platform, powered by Apache Hadoop, is a massively scalable and 100% open source platform for storing, processing and analyzing large volumes of data. It is designed to deal with data from many sources and formats in a very quick, easy and cost-effective manner. The Hortonworks Data Platform consists of the essential set of Apache Hadoop projects including MapReduce, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), HCatalog, Pig, Hive, HBase, Zookeeper and Ambari. Hortonworks is the major contributor of code and patches to many of these projects. These projects have been integrated and tested as part of the Hortonworks Data Platform release process and installation and configuration tools have also been included.

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Contents

1. Getting Ready to Install

1. Understand the Basics

2. Meet Minimum System Requirements

2.1. Hardware Recommendations
2.2. Operating Systems Requirements
2.3. Software Requirements
2.4. Configure the Remote Repository
2.5. Database Requirements
2.6. JDK Requirements
2.7. Virtualization and Cloud Platforms

3. Collect Information

4. Decide on Deployment Type

5. Prepare the Environment

5.1. Enable NTP on the Cluster
5.2. Check DNS
5.3. Disable SELinux

6. Create Service Users and Groups

7. Download Companion Files

8. Define Environment Parameters

8.1. Define Users and Groups
8.2. Define Directories

2. Installing HDFS and MapReduce

1. Set Default File and Directory Permissions

2. Install the Hadoop RPMs

3. Install Compression Libraries

4. Create Directories

4.1. Create the NameNode Directories
4.2. Create the SecondaryNameNode Directories
4.3. Create the DataNode and MapReduce Local Directories
4.4. Create the Log and PID Directories

3. Setting Up the Hadoop Configuration

4. Validating the Core Hadoop Installation

5. Installing Apache Pig

1. Install the Pig RPMs
2. Set Up Configuration Files
3. Validate the Installation

6. Installing Apache Hive and Apache HCatalog

1. Install the Hive and HCatalog RPMs
2. Set Directories and Permissions
3. Set Up the Hive/HCatalog Configuration Files
4. Validate the Installation

7. Installing WebHCat

1. Install the WebHCat RPMs
2. Set Directories and Permissions
3. Modify WebHCat Config Files
4. Set Up the HDFS User and Prepare WebHCat Directories On HDFS
5. Validate the Installation

8. Installing HBase and ZooKeeper

1. Install the HBase and ZooKeeper RPMs
2. Set Directories and Permissions
3. Set Up the Configuration Files
4. Validate the Installation

9. Installing Hue

1. Prerequisites
2. Set Up Configuration Files
3. Install Hue
4. Configure Hive
5. Configure Hue
6. Start Hue

10. Installing Apache Oozie

1. Install the Oozie RPMs
2. Set Directories and Permissions
3. Set Up the Oozie Configuration Files
4. Validate the Installation

11. Installing Apache Sqoop

1. Install the Sqoop RPMs
2. Optional - Download Database Connector
3. Set Up the Sqoop Configuration
4. Validate the Installation

12. Installing and Configuring Flume in HDP

1. Understand Flume

1.1. Flume Components

2. Install Flume

2.1. Prerequisites
2.2. Installation
2.3. Users
2.4. Directories

3. Configure Flume

4. Start Flume

5. HDP and Flume

5.1. Sources
5.2. Channels
5.3. Sinks

6. A Simple Example

13. Installing Ganglia

1. Install the Ganglia RPMs
2. Install the Configuration Files
3. Validate the Installation

14. Installing Nagios

1. Install the Nagios RPMs
2. Install the Configuration Files
3. Validate the Installation

15. Setting Up Security for Manual Installs

1. Preparing Kerberos

1.1. Kerberos Overview
1.2. Install and Configure the KDC
1.3. Create the Database and Set Up First Administrator
1.4. Create Service Principals and Keytab Files for HDP
1.5. Provide jce-6 Security JAR Files

2. Configure HDP

2.1. Create Mappings Between Principals and UNIX Usernames
2.2. Add Security Information to Configuration Files

16. Uninstalling HDP

17. Appendix: Tarballs

1. RHEL 5 and CentOS 5
2. RHEL 6 and CentOS 6
3. SUSE Enterprise Linux 11

List of Tables

1.1. Typical Service Users and Groups
1.2. Define Users and Groups for Systems
1.3. Define Directories for Core Hadoop
1.4. Define Directories for Ecosystem Components
9.1. Dependencies on HDP components
14.1. Host Group Parameters
14.2. Core and Monitoring Hosts
14.3. Ecosystem Hosts
15.1. Kerberos terminology
15.2. Service Principal Names
15.3. Service Keytab File Names
17.1. RHEL/CentOS 5
17.2. RHEL/CentOS 6
17.3. SLES 11

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