What's New in Cloudera Manager 7.8.1

New features and changed behavior for Cloudera Manager 7.8.1

Cloudera Manager now supports Active Directory objects with additional attributes

Cloudera Manager now supports Active Directory objects with additional attributes other than just accountExpires and objectClass for every new account creation. You can use these additional attributes of an object to identify or search for objects in the Active Directory network using LDAP queries.

You can now start using some of the sample attributes such as employeeType, Usertype, Manager, passwordNeverExpires, etc.

Routing email alerts to different email addresses
You can now configure the alert rules in Cloudera Manager to send email alerts to various email addresses based on rules you provide for users, hosts, services, roles, and alert rules. See Alert email routing.

What's new in Installation and Upgrade for CDP Private Cloud Data Services 1.4.1

New Procedure for decommissioning ECS hosts
See Decommissioning ECS hosts.
A custom, external Docker Repository is now available for Embedded Container Service (ECS) clusters
During installation of an ECS cluster, you can select an option to use an external, custom Docker Repository that you manage in your environment. See Docker repository access.
Pre-installation validation added to ECS Installation
The following items are validated before installing the Control Plane: Jobs, service accounts, cluster role bindings, whether the KUBECONFIG file has administrator privileges, that the base cluster has the truststore setup JKS format, and tests the vault.
Hosts are now inspected before creating an ECS cluster
The following items are now inspected:
  • GPU
  • Supported Operating System
  • Storage
  • CPU
  • Required ports are available
Warnings are displayed in the Host Inspector during ECS installation if any of the inspections return unsatisfactory results.