This is the second part of a Hortonworks Hadoop Data Platform installation and configuration tutorial. This section provides the steps necessary to install HDP 2.x as well as HDP 3.x releases and assumes the pre-requisite configuration is done.

  • Install mysql java connector
    • yum install -y mysql-connector-java
  • Install Ambari Server
    • yum install ambari-server
  • Setup Ambari Server
    • ambari-server setup
  • Customize user account for ambari-server daemon y/n?
    • y
  • Enter user account for ambari-server daemon (root):
    • root
  • Select JDK version
  • Enable Ambari Server to download and install GPL Licensed LZO packages y/n?
    • y
  • Create ambari database in mysql database
    • mysql -u root -p < /var/lib/ambari-server/resources/Ambari-DDL-MySQL-CREATE.sql
  • Grant “root” user permission on ambari database
  • Configure database
  • Configure mysql java connector
    • ambari-server setup –jdbc-db=mysql –jdbc-driver=/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar
  • Install Ambari agent
    • yum install ambari-agent
  • Start Ambari Server
    • ambari-server start
  • Start Ambari Agent
    • ambari-agent start

Install Ambari Agent on all cluster nodes

Once the ambari agent is installed on all cluster nodes, configure the agent configuration file (/etc/ambari-agent/conf/ambari-agent.ini) to reflect the host name to the ambari server & restart the agent.

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