https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-does-ambari-display-service-state/m-p/134758#M35044 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/505/dsharma.html" nodeid="505">@deepak sharma</A></P><P>It could be as simple as checking the pid file and the corresponding process in the system. For example, for hiveserver2 the file on hiveserver2 node it would be /var/run/hive/hive_server.pid. If the process number in the file is not matching with the running hiveserver2 process, it would show the process as stopped.</P> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:16:01 GMT vpoornalingam 2016-07-19T14:16:01Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-does-ambari-display-service-state/m-p/134757#M35043 <P>How does ambari display service state STARTED/STOPPED , which is the check that is applied for doing it , is it PID check or in background ps is done for the service.</P><P>can some one explain, what happens in background to determine the state of the service?</P> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:39:35 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-does-ambari-display-service-state/m-p/134757#M35043 dsharma 2016-07-19T13:39:35Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-does-ambari-display-service-state/m-p/134758#M35044 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/505/dsharma.html" nodeid="505">@deepak sharma</A></P><P>It could be as simple as checking the pid file and the corresponding process in the system. For example, for hiveserver2 the file on hiveserver2 node it would be /var/run/hive/hive_server.pid. If the process number in the file is not matching with the running hiveserver2 process, it would show the process as stopped.</P> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:16:01 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-does-ambari-display-service-state/m-p/134758#M35044 vpoornalingam 2016-07-19T14:16:01Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-does-ambari-display-service-state/m-p/134759#M35045 <P>Below is the link give you brief description of your question...</P><P><A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/22756/quickly-enable-ssl-encryption-for-hadoop-component.html" target="_blank">https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/22756/quickly-enable-ssl-encryption-for-hadoop-component.html</A></P> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 14:19:21 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-does-ambari-display-service-state/m-p/134759#M35045 mkumar13 2016-07-19T14:19:21Z