About the Hue task server in CDW

The Hue task server helps you schedule tasks to clean up Hue documents and the /tmp directory, improving cluster maintenance experience and performance. The task server also improves the file-upload experience, allowing you to upload larger files up to 5 GB.

The task server is enabled by default. Hue superusers or administrators can schedule cleanup jobs from the Task Server page in Hue. They can enable or disable the task server from the Advanced Configuration Snippet in Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW). They can also modify the default behavior, such as the frequency of the cleanup jobs, threshold of the disk space, and so on.

All users having access to Hue can leverage the improved file-upload capabilities from the Hue task server.