Start the HBase and ZooKeeper services using the instructions provided here.
If the configuration is successful, you should see the following in your ZooKeeper server logs:
11/12/05 22:43:39 INFO zookeeper.Login: successfully logged in. 11/12/05 22:43:39 INFO server.NIOServerCnxnFactory: binding to port 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0:2181 11/12/05 22:43:39 INFO zookeeper.Login: TGT refresh thread started. 11/12/05 22:43:39 INFO zookeeper.Login: TGT valid starting at: Mon Dec 05 22:43:39 UTC 2011 11/12/05 22:43:39 INFO zookeeper.Login: TGT expires: Tue Dec 06 22:43:39 UTC 2011 11/12/05 22:43:39 INFO zookeeper.Login: TGT refresh sleeping until: Tue Dec 06 18:36:42 UTC 2011 .. 11/12/05 22:43:59 INFO auth.SaslServerCallbackHandler: Successfully authenticated client: authenticationID=hbase/ip-10-166-175-249.us-west-1.compute.internal@HADOOP.LOCALDOMAIN; authorizationID=hbase/ip-10-166-175-249.us-west-1.compute.internal@HADOOP.LOCALDOMAIN. 11/12/05 22:43:59 INFO auth.SaslServerCallbackHandler: Setting authorizedID: hbase 11/12/05 22:43:59 INFO server.ZooKeeperServer: adding SASL authorization for authorizationID: hbase