https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/zookeeper-unify-two-zookeepers-that-are-in-the-same-cluster/m-p/412644#M253590 <P>hi community cloudera,</P><P>i have a cluster with two Zookeepers.</P><P>1. <STRONG>Zookeeper</STRONG> is used by all services in the cluster.</P><P>2. <STRONG>Zookeeper-kfk</STRONG> is used by the Kafka service.</P><P>however, for Ranger to manage permissions in Kafka, Kafka needs to use the same Zookeeper that Ranger uses.</P><P>therefore, I need to merge the two Zookeepers. I've tried using<STRONG> zkcopy.py</STRONG>, but I always get the error "<STRONG>ERROR: Source path "/var/lib/zookeeper" does not exist.</STRONG>", but the directory exists in the source.<BR /><BR /><STRONG>ls -l /var/lib/zookeeper</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>total 8</STRONG><BR /><STRONG>-rw-r--r-- 1 zookeeper zookeeper 2 Oct 8 11:24 myid</STRONG><BR /><STRONG>drwxr-xr-x 2 zookeeper zookeeper 4096 Oct 8 11:25 version-2</STRONG><BR /><BR /></P><P>cloudera's official support doesn't have a procedure for this issue. Therefore, I'd like to know if anyone has managed to run <STRONG>zkcopy.py</STRONG> with success or used another method to merge two Zookeepers in the same cluster?</P> Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:51:53 GMT yagoaparecidoti 2025-10-10T18:51:53Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/zookeeper-unify-two-zookeepers-that-are-in-the-same-cluster/m-p/412644#M253590 <P>hi community cloudera,</P><P>i have a cluster with two Zookeepers.</P><P>1. <STRONG>Zookeeper</STRONG> is used by all services in the cluster.</P><P>2. <STRONG>Zookeeper-kfk</STRONG> is used by the Kafka service.</P><P>however, for Ranger to manage permissions in Kafka, Kafka needs to use the same Zookeeper that Ranger uses.</P><P>therefore, I need to merge the two Zookeepers. I've tried using<STRONG> zkcopy.py</STRONG>, but I always get the error "<STRONG>ERROR: Source path "/var/lib/zookeeper" does not exist.</STRONG>", but the directory exists in the source.<BR /><BR /><STRONG>ls -l /var/lib/zookeeper</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>total 8</STRONG><BR /><STRONG>-rw-r--r-- 1 zookeeper zookeeper 2 Oct 8 11:24 myid</STRONG><BR /><STRONG>drwxr-xr-x 2 zookeeper zookeeper 4096 Oct 8 11:25 version-2</STRONG><BR /><BR /></P><P>cloudera's official support doesn't have a procedure for this issue. Therefore, I'd like to know if anyone has managed to run <STRONG>zkcopy.py</STRONG> with success or used another method to merge two Zookeepers in the same cluster?</P> Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:51:53 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/zookeeper-unify-two-zookeepers-that-are-in-the-same-cluster/m-p/412644#M253590 yagoaparecidoti 2025-10-10T18:51:53Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/zookeeper-unify-two-zookeepers-that-are-in-the-same-cluster/m-p/412645#M253591 <P>i used this github as an example:</P><P><A href="https://github.com/kerberizer/zkcopy" target="_blank">https://github.com/kerberizer/zkcopy</A></P><P>but, without success, it returns the error that was described.</P> Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:58:24 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/zookeeper-unify-two-zookeepers-that-are-in-the-same-cluster/m-p/412645#M253591 yagoaparecidoti 2025-10-10T18:58:24Z