Performing Actions on Entities

Minimum Required Role:: Policy Administrator (also provided by Full Administrator)

Moving an HDFS Entity and Moving an HDFS Entity to Trash

You can move an HDFS entity to another location and move an entity to HDFS trash. In order to perform such actions you must be a member of a user group that has the appropriate access to HDFS files.

You can also schedule a move or move to trash in a policy.

  1. Start and log into the Cloudera Navigator data management component UI.
  2. Run a search in the Navigator UI.
  3. Click an HDFS entity link returned in the search. The entity Details tab displays.
  4. To the left of the Details tab, select Actions > Move... or Actions > Move to Trash....
  5. For a move, specify the target path.
  6. Click Run Action. When you delete a file, after a short delay the file displays a Deleted badge.

Viewing Command Action Status

  1. Start and log into the Cloudera Navigator data management component UI.
  2. In the top right, select usernameActions. The Command Actions status page displays with a list of actions performed and the policy that caused the action if applicable.
  3. If an action failed, a View Log button displays, which you can click to view the error message associated with the failure.

Viewing an Entity in Hue

If you are running Hue you can view certain types of entities in the following Hue applications:
  • HDFS directories and files - File Browser
  • Hive database and tables - Metastore Manager
  • MapReduce, YARN, Pig - Job Browser
  1. Start and log into the Cloudera Navigator data management component UI.
  2. Run a search in the Navigator UI.
  3. Do one of the following:
    • Search results
      1. Click the View in Hue link in a search result entry.
    • Entity details
      1. Click an entity link returned in the search. The entity Details tab displays.
      2. To the left of the Details tab, select Actions > View in Hue.
    The entity displays in the supported Hue application.