hey were you able to resolve this issue. I am facing the same issue, any help is much appreciated ... View more

Hey sorry for the late reply. I moved out from the company. I finally ended up using stand alone nifi cluster instead of using it from cloudera manager.   However i am able to deploy the nifi as a service in cluster mode from the cloudera manager.   My major concern at that time was not knowing how to change the properties in cloudera manager and make it reflect back to nifi.proprties. I did write some part of the csd which is very vauge and unfortunately i did not have a backup of the immature csd i have written.   I will try to get it if possible and  paste it here.    Regards,  PV  ... View more

I just went through the  developer Tricks and tools, those API's did help me, I am able to succesfully install and start Nifi from the cloudera manager and see the web UI as well ,but i have deployed the csd again in the default location. For some reason I am getting error while starting nifi by the cloudera manager if it is in my custom location, have to figure it out still. ... View more

Disclaimer: First time writing a csd   I overlooked the Local descriptor repository path . It is pointing to some other directory. I made it point to the csd and restarted the server. When i do the refresh it gives the following error. invalidCsds":{"/opt/app/cloudera/csd/NIFI-1.0":["Failed to load CSD from /opt/app/cloudera/csd/NIFI-1.0, Error: CSD bundle data directory or Jar file doesn't exist"],"/opt/app/cloudera/csd/NIFI-1.0.jar":["Failed to load CSD from /opt/app/cloudera/csd/NIFI-1.0.jar, Error: CSD bundle data directory or Jar file doesn't exist"]},"repoEnabled":true},"message":"OK"} Any Pointers would help me to overcome this issue ... View more

My issue was with Add a service Wizard ,Nifi not bieng displayed. I did check what you mentioned and everything seems to be in place. The parcel is fine (downloaded,ditributed,activated) as expected on all the nodes through cloudera manager.It did unpack the parcel on all the nodes. ... View more