Note: This is post is part of the HDPCA exam objective series We have seen in the last posts, how to install ambari-server and ambari-agent. Let us now see how we can install the HDP cluster using the ambari install wizard. We will be having the cluster topology as shown below. The ambari-server install wizard […]
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HDPCA Exam Objective – Install ambari agent
Note: This is post is part of the HDPCA exam objective series The ambari agent communicates with the ambari server and provides all the necessary information required to the ambari-server. This post outlines the steps to install and configure the ambari agent. The ambari agents need to be installed in all the nodes in the […]
HDPCA Exam Objective – Install ambari-server
Note: This is post is part of the HDPCA exam objective series What is ambari-server and ambari-agent Ambari is an Apache project (http://ambari.apache.org), which in theory, provides an open source alternative to Cloudera Manager. It is the administration console for the Hortonworks distribution. At the time of writing Hortonworks employees are also the vast majority […]
Preparing for the HDPCA (HDP Certified Administrator) Exam
Taking the Practice HDPCA practice exam on AWS Before taking the HDPCA exam, you can get the feel of the exam by using the HDPCA practice exam on AWS cloud. The practice exam is very similar to the actual exam. You can perform 6 tasks for practice on this machine. The recommended instance configuration in […]
HDPCA Exam Objective – Configure a local HDP repository
Note: This is post is part of the HDPCA exam objective series To be able to install HDP in enterprise environments we have to configure the local repositories. There are 2 repositories that are required to get an enterprise Hadoop cluster up and running, namely: 1. Ambari Repositories 2. HDP Stack Repositories Configuring local repositories […]
Linux OS Service ‘winbind’
Winbind unifies UNIX and Windows NT account management by allowing a UNIX box to become a full member of a NT domain. The service provided by winbind daemon, is called winbind and can be used to resolve user and group information from a Windows NT server, which makes it understandable by UNIX platforms. The service […]
Linux OS Service ‘rpcgssd’
This service manages RPCSEC GSS contexts for the NFSv4 client, which provides support on the client side for RPCSEC_GSS protocol. It will start rpc.gssd daemon to communicate with server-side rpcsec_gss daemon rpc.svcgssd. If using NFSv4, it is needed. The rpcsec_gss protocol gives a means of using the gss-api generic security api to provide security for […]
Linux OS Service ‘irqbalance’
irqbalance is a Linux daemon that distributes interrupts over among the processors and cores in your computer system. The design goal of irqbalance is to do find a balance between power savings and optimal performance. To a large degree, the work irqbalance does is invisible to you. The daemon balances savings in power consumption with […]
How to Audit for Modifications to files and Executions of Files in Linux
Auditd is the userspace component to the Linux Auditing System. It’s responsible for writing audit records to the disk. Viewing the logs is done with the ausearch or aureport utilities. Configuring the audit rules is done with the auditctl utility. During startup, the rules in /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules are read by auditctl. The audit daemon itself has […]
How To Identify User Deleting Files From A Given Directory in Linux
Question How to find which user is deleting the files under a particular directory on Linux? Solution You can use the auditd service to record a notice when any change is made to a particular file or directory. Below is an example which will record any change made to any file under the /tmp/dir directory. […]