Cloudera Navigator 2 Requirements and Supported Versions

The following sections describe various requirements and supported versions of Cloudera Manager, databases, browsers, and CDH and managed service versions for Cloudera Navigator 2.

For more information on compatibility with other components, see the Cloudera Product Compatibility Matrix.

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Cloudera Manager Requirements
Supported Databases
Supported Browsers
Supported CDH and Managed Service Versions

Cloudera Manager Requirements

Cloudera Navigator 2.2 is available with Cloudera Manager 5.3. For information on the requirements for installing Cloudera Manager, see Cloudera Manager 5 Requirements and Supported Versions.

Supported Databases

Cloudera Navigator, which stores audit reports, and entity metadata, policies, and user authorization and audit report metadata, supports the following databases:

MySQL - 5.1, 5.5 and 5.6
Oracle 11gR2
PostgreSQL - 8.1, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

Supported Browsers

The Cloudera Navigator UI, which you use to create and view audit reports, search and update metadata, and configure Cloudera Navigator user groups, supports the following browsers:

Mozilla Firefox 24 and higher
Google Chrome 36 and higher
Internet Explorer 11
Safari 5 and higher

Supported CDH and Managed Service Versions

This section describes the CDH and managed service versions supported by the Cloudera Navigator auditing and metadata components.

Cloudera Navigator Auditing Component

This section describes the service versions and audited operations supported by the Cloudera Navigator auditing component.

HDFS - Minimum supported version: CDH 4.0.0.
The captured operations are:
- Operations that access or modify a file's or directory's data or metadata
- Operations denied due to lack of privileges
HBase - Minimum supported version: CDH 4.0.0.
Note:
- In CDH versions less than 4.2.0, for grant and revoke operations, the operation in log events is ADMIN
- In simple authentication mode, if the HBase Secure RPC Engine property is false (the default), the username in log events is UNKNOWN. To see a meaningful user name:
  1. Click the HBase service.
  2. Click the Configuration tab.
  3. Select Service-wide > Security.
  4. Set the HBase Secure RPC Engine property to true.
  5. Save the change and restart the service.
Hive - Minimum supported versions: CDH 4.2.0, CDH 4.4.0 for operations denied due to lack of privileges.
The captured operations are:
- Operations (except grant, revoke, and metadata access only) sent to HiveServer2
- Operations denied due to lack of privileges
Note:
- Actions taken against Hive using the Hive CLI are not audited. Therefore if you have enabled auditing you should disable the Hive CLI to prevent actions against Hive that are not audited.
- In simple authentication mode, the username in log events is the username passed in the HiveServer2 connect command. If you do not pass a username in the connect command, the username is log events is anonymous.
Hue - Minimum supported version: CDH 4.2.0.
The captured operations are:
- Operations (except grant, revoke, and metadata access only) sent to Beeswax Server
Note: You do not directly configure the Hue service for auditing. Instead, when you configure the Hive service for auditing, operations sent to the Hive service through Beeswax appear in the Hue service audit log.
Cloudera Impala - Minimum supported version: Cloudera Impala 1.2.1.
The captured operations are:
- Queries denied due to lack of privileges
- Queries that pass analysis
Sentry
The captured operations are:
- Operations sent to the HiveServer2 and Hive Metastore Server roles and Impala service
- Add and delete roles, assign roles to groups and remove roles from groups, create and delete privileges, grant and revoke privileges
- Operations denied due to lack of privileges
Note: You do not directly configure the Sentry service for auditing. Instead, when you configure the Hive and Impala services for auditing, grant, revoke, and metadata operations appear in the Hive or Impala service audit logs.

Cloudera Navigator Metadata Component

This section describes the CDH and managed service versions supported by the Cloudera Navigator metadata component.

CDH 4.4.0 and higher for all components except Pig. For Pig, CDH 4.6.0 and higher. The supported components are:

HDFS. However, federated HDFS is not supported.
Hive
MapReduce
Oozie
Pig
Sqoop 1 - all Cloudera connectors are supported.
YARN

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