Suspending and resuming Cloudera Data Engineering virtual clusters using the API

To suspend or resume Cloudera Data Engineering VCs, you need to:

• Have DEAdmin role
• Request the DE_ENABLE_VC_SUSPEND_RESUME entitlement
• Get the base URL
  • You can obtain the BASE-URL by copying the console URL up to the first forward slash (/).

    Example for the console URL: https://console.us-west-1.cdp.cloudera.com/dex/home

    An example for the BASE-URL, which changes according to the region: https://console.us-west-1.cdp.cloudera.com

  • Alternatively:
    1. In the Cloudera Management Console, click the Data Engineering tile.
    2. In the left navigation menu, click Administration.
    3. Right click on the Administration page and select Inspect from the list of options.
    4. Click the Console tab.
    5. Type window.location.origin and press Enter.
• Get the cdp-session-token (CST)
  1. In the Cloudera Management Console, click the Data Engineering tile.
  2. In the left navigation menu, click Administration.
  3. Right click and select Inspect.
  4. If you use Google Chrome, click the Application tab, or alternatively, if you use Firefox, click the Storage tab.
  5. Click Cookies and select the URL of the console.
  6. Select cdp-session-token.
  7. Double click the displayed cookie value, then right click and select Copy.
  8. Open a terminal screen.
  9. Paste the cookie value in the following command and run the command to get the cdp-session-token (CST).

     export CST=[***COOKIE-VALUE***]