Not able to change log directories for Ranger Admin and Ranger usersync

[#1]

While Ambari UI provides feature to change log directories from UI, but it still is not being taken by Ranger. Looks like Ranger is overriding what I am setting in Ambari.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Got the solution after working with support. This is BUG in current Ambari and HDP versions.

https://hortonworks.jira.com/browse/BUG-38390

Below is workaround:

Change Log directory for Ranger Admin logs

On Ranger Admin nodes: ADMIN LOGS (Change the symbolic link for in ews directory):

 
mkdir /opt/hadoop/log/ranger/admin 
chmod 775 /opt/hadoop/log/ranger/admin 
chown ranger_qa:ranger_qa_grp /opt/hadoop/log/ranger/admin 
cd /usr/hdp/current/ranger-admin/ews 
unlink logs
ln -s /opt/hadoop/log/ranger/admin logs 

From Ambari Web UI --> Change Log directory for Ranger Admin and restart Ranger.

Note: here ranger_qa and ranger_qa_grp are ranger user and group respectively which are customized in my case.

Change log directory for USERSYNC LOGS

On Ranger Usersync node:

mkdir /opt/hadoop/log/ranger/usersync 

chmod 775 /opt/hadoop/log/ranger/usersync 

chown ranger_qa:ranger_qa_grp /opt/hadoop/log/ranger/usersync

Note: here ranger_qa and ranger_qa_grp are ranger user and group respectively which are customized in my case.

1. Make a back of file /usr/hdp/current/ranger-usersync/ranger-usersync-services.sh

2. Change the file to the path to your new log location.

logdir=/var/log/ranger/usersync

cd /usr/hdp/current/ranger-usersync/ 

cp ranger-usersync-services.sh{,.backup01122015} 

vi ranger-usersync-services.sh
    #logdir=/var/log/ranger/usersync          
     logdir=/opt/hadoop/log/ranger/usersync

From Ambari Web UI --> Change Log directory for Ranger Usersync and restart Ranger