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CCA 131 – Commission/decommission a node

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Note: This post is part of the CCA Administrator Exam (CCA131) objectives series Cloudera Manager makes it very simple to add and remove hosts in a cluster. All host management operations in Cloudera Manager are done from the Hosts screen. In this post, we will go through the steps of Commissioning and decommissioning a host […]

CCA 131 – Add a service using Cloudera Manager

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Note: This post is part of the CCA Administrator Exam (CCA131) objectives series To start with we have just installed few services like HDFS, YARN, and zookeeper in our CDH setup. The Cloudera Manager enables you to add any other service later on. As a part of the exam, you may be asked to add […]

CCA 131 – Add a new node to an existing cluster

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Note: This post is part of the CCA Administrator Exam (CCA131) objectives series Cloudera Manager makes it very simple to add and remove hosts in a cluster. All host management operations in Cloudera Manager are done from the Hosts screen. In this section, we will go through the steps of adding a new host to […]

CCA 131 – Install CDH using Cloudera Manager

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Note: This post is part of the CCA Administrator Exam (CCA131) objectives series In the last post, we have seen how to install the Cloudera server manager and Cloudera Manager agents. In this post, we will begin installing the CDH cluster using the Cloudera Manager. You can point your browser to http://[cloudera manager host]:7180 and […]

CCA 131 – Install Cloudera Manager server and agents

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Note: This post is part of the CCA Administrator Exam (CCA131) objectives series Cloudera Installation Paths There are 3 paths in which the cloudera cluster can be installed and configured. PATH A – Automated Installation PATH B – Using Cloudera Manager with local Parcel/Packages PATH C – Manual Installation using tarballs Cloudera installation Phases Whichever […]

CCA 131 – Perform OS-level configuration for Hadoop installation

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Note: This post is part of the CCA Administrator Exam (CCA131) objectives series In the last post we have setup the local CDH repository. But before we can perform any installation or even before setting up the repositoy you must perform few OS-level configurations. The OS-level configuration includes: Enabling NTP Configuring Network Names (hostnames/FQDNs) Disabling […]

Preparing for the CCA Administrator Exam (CCA131)

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CCA 131 or Cloudera Administration Certification Exam is the most valued certification exam in the Hadoop world. The exam is practical oriented with sample scenarios to work upon. Number of Questions: 8–12 performance-based (hands-on) tasks on pre-configured Cloudera Enterprise cluster. Time Limit: 120 minutes Passing Score: 70% Language: English Price: USD $295 Exam Objectives Install […]

CCA 131 – Set up a local CDH repository

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Note: This post is part of the CCA Administrator Exam (CCA131) objectives series CDH can be installed using one of the following two methods: Installation using the operating system’s package manager (e.g. yum) Installation using Cloudera Manager Note: Make sure you have followed the post “Perform OS-level configuration for Hadoop installation” before you proceed to […]