https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ranger-logfile-getting-filled/m-p/140260#M48120 <P> <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/10115/sahmad43.html" nodeid="10115">@Sami Ahmad</A> These messages are the Ranger plugins for HDFS and Hive connecting to Ranger Admin to check that they have the latest policies. If you want to stop these messages then you'll need to turn the Ranger Admin logging down to WARN, but these messages are normal. If you look at the frequency they'll occur every 30 seconds which is the default polling period for the plugins.</P> Wed, 07 Dec 2016 05:36:26 GMT tstebbens 2016-12-07T05:36:26Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ranger-logfile-getting-filled/m-p/140258#M48118 <P>the xa_portal.log file is getting filled with these records , even though the system is not being used ., I using HDP2.5</P><PRE> 2016-12-06 16:24:30,044 [http-bio-6080-exec-1] INFO apache.ranger.security.web.filter.RangerKRBAuthenticationFilter (RangerKRBAuthenticationFilter.java:220) - Logged into Ranger as = hdfs 2016-12-06 16:24:30,045 [http-bio-6080-exec-1] INFO org.apache.ranger.biz.SessionMgr (SessionMgr.java:232) - UserSession Updated to set new Permissions to User: hdfs 2016-12-06 16:24:30,046 [http-bio-6080-exec-1] INFO org.apache.ranger.biz.SessionMgr (SessionMgr.java:184) - Login Success: loginId=hdfs, sessionId=null, sessionId=1EC316895EBF3A497B9227FED1143A70, requestId=10.100.44.17, epoch=1481059470046 2016-12-06 16:24:44,133 [http-bio-6080-exec-5] INFO apache.ranger.security.web.filter.RangerKRBAuthenticationFilter (RangerKRBAuthenticationFilter.java:220) - Logged into Ranger as = hive 2016-12-06 16:24:44,135 [http-bio-6080-exec-5] INFO org.apache.ranger.biz.SessionMgr (SessionMgr.java:232) - UserSession Updated to set new Permissions to User: hive 2016-12-06 16:24:44,135 [http-bio-6080-exec-5] INFO org.apache.ranger.biz.SessionMgr (SessionMgr.java:184) - Login Success: loginId=hive, sessionId=null, sessionId=FFB6C01FD48142647893352C6AFF3CDB, requestId=10.100.44.16, epoch=1481059484135 2016-12-06 16:25:00,055 [http-bio-6080-exec-3] INFO apache.ranger.security.web.filter.RangerKRBAuthenticationFilter (RangerKRBAuthenticationFilter.java:220) - Logged into Ranger as = hdfs 2016-12-06 16:25:00,056 [http-bio-6080-exec-3] INFO org.apache.ranger.biz.SessionMgr (SessionMgr.java:232) - UserSession Updated to set new Permissions to User: hdfs 2016-12-06 16:25:00,057 [http-bio-6080-exec-3] INFO org.apache.ranger.biz.SessionMgr (SessionMgr.java:184) - Login Success: loginId=hdfs, sessionId=null, sessionId=C6017523D930A116A3735C92F5397A49, requestId=10.100.44.17, epoch=1481059500057 </PRE> Wed, 07 Dec 2016 05:29:09 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ranger-logfile-getting-filled/m-p/140258#M48118 aliyesami 2016-12-07T05:29:09Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ranger-logfile-getting-filled/m-p/140259#M48119 <P>These ranger-admin sessions are created by "download policy actions" performed by RangerPlugins in NameNode, HiveServer process. They are authenticating to ranger-admin process using their service kerberos credentials (hdfs, hive).</P> Wed, 07 Dec 2016 05:35:46 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ranger-logfile-getting-filled/m-p/140259#M48119 sneethiraj 2016-12-07T05:35:46Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ranger-logfile-getting-filled/m-p/140260#M48120 <P> <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/10115/sahmad43.html" nodeid="10115">@Sami Ahmad</A> These messages are the Ranger plugins for HDFS and Hive connecting to Ranger Admin to check that they have the latest policies. If you want to stop these messages then you'll need to turn the Ranger Admin logging down to WARN, but these messages are normal. If you look at the frequency they'll occur every 30 seconds which is the default polling period for the plugins.</P> Wed, 07 Dec 2016 05:36:26 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ranger-logfile-getting-filled/m-p/140260#M48120 tstebbens 2016-12-07T05:36:26Z