Cloudera Observability On-Premises installation overview
A brief overview of the tasks required to successfully install Cloudera Observability On-Premises on a dedicated cluster within your environment.
Installing Cloudera Observability On-Premises requires the following tasks that are performed by you:
- Creating a CDP cluster for Cloudera Observability On-Premises that contains a minimum of 5 nodes and that is managed by Cloudera Manager.
- Verifying that your environment's system has the required supported software and hardware and the required network services and devices for installing Cloudera Observability On-Premises.
- Performing the pre-installation tasks.
- Downloading and deploying the Cloudera Observability On-Premises installation files from the Cloudera Downloads website to the host server on your Cloudera Observability cluster and activating the Cloudera Observability On-Premises parcel file.
- Enabling secure communication and data encryption between components, Cloudera Observability On-Premises, and your Workload clusters.
- Enabling the Phoenix service.
- Enabling the Kafka service.
- Adding the Cloudera Observability On-Premises service on all nodes in the Cloudera Observability On-Premises cluster and improving performance by enabling multiple devices to share the processing and memory workload.
- Granting user access with either local or the LDAP protocol authentication.
- Enabling the Telemetry Publisher service and associating it with your Workload clusters.
- Performing the post-installation tasks.
Follow these guidelines to ensure a successful Cloudera Observability On-Premises installation:
- Decide on the type of Cloudera Observability On-Premises environment that best suites your business requirements.
- Read the system requirements. This ensures that your Cloudera Observability On-Premises cluster has the required base hardware and software.
- Read the installation pre-requisites and installation steps. This ensures that you understand the tasks required and how they are completed.
- Understand what software services are required and what account information is needed when configuring dependent services. Third-party software services, such as LDAP, network, and firewall security, must be configured by you. For example, your SSL key pair file locations and private key are required during installation.
- Record all the required configuration values, such as host names, port numbers, user names and passwords.
- During the pre-installation tasks, record any new configuration values as you create them. You will be required to enter these configuration values later when you install and deploy Cloudera Observability On-Premises.
- After installing Cloudera Observability On-Premises, verify that the software stack installed successfully.
