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HDInsight Essentials - Second Edition

By : Rajesh Nadipalli
Book Image

HDInsight Essentials - Second Edition

By: Rajesh Nadipalli

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
HDInsight Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exploring clusters using the remote desktop


Once the cluster is up and running, the best way to explore it is via the remote desktop. This section discusses how to check the cluster status using Hadoop commands in detail. From the HDInsight CONFIGURATION page, you can download the RDP file by clicking on CONNECT, as shown in the following screenshot. This RDP file allows one to connect to the active head node remotely.

The next step is to launch the remote desktop to the head node by opening the .rdp file with a remote desktop connection application. On launching the application, it will prompt you for a username and password, which you entered in the remote desktop connection configuration.

Once you get connected, you will see the familiar Windows desktop, as shown in the following screenshot:

Running a sample MapReduce

Using the Hadoop Command Line interface, we can verify the cluster by running a sample program provided by HDInsight. Let's take a look at the steps to run the famous Hadoop...