Extract your build at the appropriate place.

Copy ranger-<version>-SNAPSHOT-kafka-plugin.tar.gz to Active_Resourcemanager host in directory /usr/hdp/<hdp-version>/.

Change directory to /usr/hdp/<hdp-version>.

Untar ranger-<version>-SNAPSHOT-SNAPSHOT-kafka-plugin.tar.gz.

Change directories to ranger-<version>-SNAPSHOT-kafka-plugin.

Edit the install.properties file.

Enter the appropriate values for each of the following properties:

Additionally, for the Audit info, Solr/HDFS options are available.

Enable the Kafka plug-in:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64
./enable-kafka-plugin.sh

	Note
	In the HA environment, the Knox plug-in must be enabled on all Knox instances.

Stop and start the Kafka gateway:

su kafka -c "/usr/hdp/current/kafka-broker/bin/kafka stop"
su kafka -c "/usr/hdp/current/kafka-broker/bin/kafka start"

Create the default repo for Kafka with proper configuration.

In the custom repo configuration, add the component user kafka for each of the following properties:

Use the Audit->plugins tab to verify that the Kafka plug-in is communicating with Ranger admin.

	Note
	If the Kafka plugin is unable to communicate with Ranger admin, check that the authorizer.class.name property in file /usr/hdp/<hdp-version>/kafka/config/server.properties, is set to org.apache.ranger.authorization.kafka.authorizer.RangerKafkaAuthorizer .