5. Validate the Installation

Use the following steps to validate your installation:

Start Hive Metastore service.

 Login as $HIVE_USER
nohup hive --service metastore>$HIVE_LOG_DIR/hive.out 2>$HIVE_LOG_DIR/hive.log &

Smoke Test Hive.

Run sample commands.

show databases;
create table test(col1 int, col2 string);
show tables;

Start HiveServer2.

 /usr/lib/hive/bin/hiveserver2 >$HIVE_LOG_DIR/hiveserver2.out 2> $HIVE_LOG_DIR/hiveserver2.log &

Smoke Test HiveServer2.

Open Beeline command line shell to interact with HiveServer2.
```
/usr/lib/hive/bin/beeline
```

Establish connection to server.

!connect jdbc:hive2://$hive.server.full.hostname:10000 $HIVE_USER password org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver

Run sample commands.

show databases;
create table test2(a int, b string);
show tables;

where:

$HIVE_USER is the user that owns the HIVE services. For example, hive.
$HIVE_LOG_DIR is the directory for storing the Hive Server logs. This directory name is a combination of a directory and the $HIVE_USER.