5. Configuring Hive for Falcon

Falcon-generated Hive actions require changes to hive-site.xml to pass the right configuration parameters.

[Warning]Warning

This configuration change lets you work with Hive tables and Oozie workflows, but impacts all Hive actions, including non-Falcon Oozie workflows.

Under the oozie configuration directory (typically /etc/oozie/conf), there is a subdirectory called action-conf. Under that directory, either create or modify the file hive-site.xml and add the following property:

 <property>
   <name>hive.metastore.execute.setugi</name>
   <value>true</value>
</property>

After making this change, restart the Oozie service. If you have Oozie configured for HA, perform this configuration change on all Oozie server nodes.


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