Check  node IP address is listed in the file that is pointing yarn.resourcemanager.nodes.include-path (Path to file with nodes to include). Make sure that you starting nodemanager with correct user permissions ... View more

This response I got from the Cloudera support "I can see you're running on CDH 5.3.3, and this was added as a feature in YARN-2005, which was included in CDH releases starting from CDH 5.5.0: "YARN-2005: Blacklisting support for scheduling AMs" https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-2005, Unfortunately this can't be backported to your version of CDH and you will have to resort to an upgrade "   Another ticket related black listing AMs is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-4389 This fix releasing with Hadoop 2.8.0. ... View more