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Cloudera Administration Handbook

By : Rohit Menon
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Cloudera Administration Handbook

By: Rohit Menon

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Cloudera Administration Handbook
Credits
Notice
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introducing Cloudera Manager


Cloudera Manager is a web-browser-based administration tool to manage Apache Hadoop clusters. It is the centralized command center to operate the entire cluster from a single interface. Using Cloudera Manager, the administrator gets visibility for each and every component in the cluster.

A few of the important features of Cloudera Manager are listed as follows:

  • It provides an easy-to-use web interface to install and upgrade CDH across the cluster.

  • Each node in the cluster can be assigned roles and can be configured accordingly. It allows the starting and stopping of services across all nodes from a single web interface.

  • It provides complete information for each node, for example, CPU, memory disk, and network statuses.

Cloudera Manager is available in the following two editions:

  • Cloudera Manager Standard (free)

  • Cloudera Manager Enterprise (licensed)

Cloudera Manager Standard Edition, though free, is a feature packed tool that can be used to deploy and manage Apache Hadoop...