https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Ranger-Admin-Not-able-to-start/m-p/292154#M215927 <P>No help still not able to start ranger:</P><P>&nbsp;</P><LI-CODE lang="markup">2020-03-19 20:20:10,288 [JISQL] /usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112/bin/java -cp /usr/hdp/current/ranger-admin/ews/lib/mysql-connector-java.jar:/usr/hdp/current/ranger-admin/jisql/lib/* org.apache.util.sql.Jisql -driver mysqlconj -cstring jdbc:mysql://namenode.asotc.com/mysql -u root -p '********' -noheader -trim -c \; -query "SELECT version();" Loading class `com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'. This is deprecated. The new driver class is `com.mysql.cj.jdbc.Driver'. The driver is automatically registered via the SPI and manual loading of the driver class is generally unnecessary. SQLException : SQL state: 01S00 java.sql.SQLException: The server time zone value 'EDT' is unrecognized or represents more than one time zone. You must configure either the server or JDBC driver (via the 'serverTimezone' configuration property) to use a more specifc time zone value if you want to utilize time zone support. ErrorCode: 0 2020-03-19 20:20:11,050 [E] Can't establish db connection.. Exiting..</LI-CODE> Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:21:17 GMT prakashpunj 2020-03-20T00:21:17Z