Why doesn't proxyuser change prompt HiveServer2 restart?

[#1]

I'm configuring Ambari Views with Kerberos.

After setting the proxyusers described in the Ambari Security Guide, I'm prompted to restart several services (HDFS, Yarn, Mapreduce, HBase, Oozie I believe).

However, Hive View will not launch, saying that the necessary proxyuser configurations are not present. HiveServer2 apparently looks at core-site.xml on process start and then refers back to that for the proxyuser check.

Restarting HiveServer2 resolves the issue.

Clearly HiveServer2 is sensitive to proxyuser configuration, so I suggest adding it to the list of components that are prompted for restart in Ambari.

I've checked this in Ambari 2.2.2 and 2.4.1.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@Rob Ketcherside

I see that there is already an issue reported for the same behaviour with (Fix Version/s: Ambari 3.0.0)

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-18373

[#3]

Thanks for confirming.

[#4]

@jss shouldn't that be mentioned in one of the two docs then?

Eg, http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/Ambari-2.4.0.1/bk_ambari-views/content/configuring_your_clu...

That doc specifically says "4. Save the configuration change and restart the required components as indicated by Ambari."

It should say "and HiveServer2 in order to use Hive View".