https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-register-existing-Kafka-service-to-Ambari/m-p/94427#M7732 <P>you can go to Add services in Ambari. It will be listing Kafka as available service. By default it will show one broker you can click "+" sign next to it add more kafka servers on different hosts.</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:16:18 GMT schintalapani 2015-09-29T08:16:18Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-register-existing-Kafka-service-to-Ambari/m-p/94426#M7731 <P>I have upgraded Ambari to 2.1.0 and HDP to 2.2.6, now I want to manage Kafka using Ambari as it was not managed by Ambari in Ambari1.5.1. How to add Kafka service to Ambari?</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:14:12 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-register-existing-Kafka-service-to-Ambari/m-p/94426#M7731 pardeep_kumar 2015-09-29T08:14:12Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-register-existing-Kafka-service-to-Ambari/m-p/94427#M7732 <P>you can go to Add services in Ambari. It will be listing Kafka as available service. By default it will show one broker you can click "+" sign next to it add more kafka servers on different hosts.</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2015 08:16:18 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-register-existing-Kafka-service-to-Ambari/m-p/94427#M7732 schintalapani 2015-09-29T08:16:18Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-register-existing-Kafka-service-to-Ambari/m-p/94428#M7733 <P><A href="http://community.hortonworks.com/users/172/schintalapani.html">@schintalapani@hortonworks.com</A> But service already exists in my case, what would be Ambari API call to register this service?</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:14:47 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-register-existing-Kafka-service-to-Ambari/m-p/94428#M7733 pardeep_kumar 2015-09-29T10:14:47Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-register-existing-Kafka-service-to-Ambari/m-p/94429#M7734 <P>It should not matter to Ambari. During the installation phase, it will have the RPM already there so it will be able to move to the next step. You should make a backup of your configuration file as it will be overwritten. </P><P>Do you experience a different behaviour ?</P> Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:50:32 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/How-to-register-existing-Kafka-service-to-Ambari/m-p/94429#M7734 orenault 2015-09-29T20:50:32Z