Ambiguities in the Tutorial and things that don't work

[#1]

Context: using Virtual Box and HDP 2.5 sandbox

In section 2, it states "Navigate to Ambari welcome page using the url given on Sandbox welcome page.". The Sandbox Welcome page is "localhost:8888", but there is no URL on this page for Ambari. I do find it when I click on "quick links" a the bottom of the page. This should be clarified in the material.

However, there is only one link provided in the Ambari quick link and it takes me to Zeppelin.

When I go thru the steps using "ifconfig" to find my host address (which happened to be 172.17.0.2) and then open in my browser that address with 8080 appended, it just times out. Should this be different than "localhost:8080"? But as noted this link takes me to Zeppelin welcome page, not Ambari.

What should the link be to Ambari (or if I have missed something, what did I miss)?

[#2]

You should change the Zeppelin port to something besides 8080 (9995 or 9999 are typical). Then localhost:8080 should bring up Ambari.

These instructions are from: https://zeppelin.apache.org/docs/0.6.0/install/install.html

You can configure Apache Zeppelin with both environment variables in conf/zeppelin-env.sh(conf\zeppelin-env.cmd for Windows) and Java properties in conf/zeppelin-site.xml. If both are defined, then the environment variables will take priority.

zepplin-env.sh	zepplin-site.xml
ZEPPELIN_PORT	zeppelin.server.port

[#3]

@Cecil New

Can you provide a link to the tutorial you are following?

The Ambari default port is 8080. If your VirtualBox environment is working properly (with port forwarding) then you should be able to access it via http://localhost:8080.

The reason you are getting a timeout is because The HDP 2.5 Sandbox is a Docker container within a CentOS VM. The IP address you see (172.17.0.2) is the IP of the Docker container which is only visible from the CentOS VM.

Try logging into the VM using ssh -p 2122 root@localhost. This will log you into the CentOS VM instead of the Docker container. Now when you run ifconfig you will get the IP address of the CentOS VM which is what you need to enter into your browser.

[#4 · Accepted solution]

Ambari should always run on 8080 port, so connecting to http://localhost:8080 should take you directly to the ambari login.

Zeppelin runs on port 9995.

[#5]

@Satish Bomma apparently the sandbox is configured differently (or the docker and VM are getting confused). See snippet

[#6]

@Michael Young

The tutorial is http://hortonworks.com/hadoop-tutorial/learning-the-ropes-of-the-hortonworks-sandbox. I clicked on the "Ask a Question" at the end of the tutorial and it provided the tags hdp-2.5.0 and tutorial-160.

When I use port 2222 and ifconfig I get this (and I have to use the reset password):

$ ssh root@127.0.0.1 -p 2222
root@127.0.0.1's password:
Last login: Fri Dec 16 16:55:32 2016 from 10.0.2.2
[root@sandbox ~]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 02:42:AC:11:00:02
          inet addr:172.17.0.2  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.0.0

When I use port 2122 I can use the hadoop password and see this:

$ ssh root@127.0.0.1 -p 2122
root@127.0.0.1's password:
Last login: Fri Dec 16 18:05:07 2016 from 10.0.2.2
[root@sandbox ~]# ifconfig
docker0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 172.17.0.1  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 0.0.0.0

The two give me a different IP address (slightly). But both time out.

[#7]

@Cecil New

In the second example, the only interface listed is the docker0 interface. That is a virtual interface for talking to the Docker container.

Can you try ifconfig -a to see what other interfaces are present?

[#8]

@Cecil New

It seems like you are missing a network interface or it did not come up properly.

Can you confirm that your port forwarding rules are in place within VirtualBox? Here is what I see:

When I log into the VM I see the following with ifconfig:

[root@sandbox ~]# ifconfig
docker0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 172.17.0.1  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 0.0.0.0
        inet6 fe80::42:dcff:fe14:ae0a  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 02:42:dc:14:ae:0a  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 337  bytes 44534 (43.4 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 346  bytes 489900 (478.4 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

enp0s3: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.0.2.15  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.0.2.255
        inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fea5:537e  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 08:00:27:a5:53:7e  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 697  bytes 516069 (503.9 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 402  bytes 59902 (58.4 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

[#9]

@Michael Young mine look similar:

[#10]

What about the ifconfig -a? Do you see more than just the docker0 interface?

[#11]

@Michael Young

Here you go:

[root@sandbox ~]# ifconfig -a
docker0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 172.17.0.1  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 0.0.0.0
        inet6 fe80::42:b5ff:fe1d:634f  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 02:42:b5:1d:63:4f  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 1462  bytes 512300 (500.2 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1942  bytes 216711 (211.6 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0


enp0s3: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.0.2.15  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.0.2.255
        inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fea5:537e  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 08:00:27:a5:53:7e  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 2256  bytes 271935 (265.5 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1972  bytes 734622 (717.4 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0


lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 12  bytes 1020 (1020.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 12  bytes 1020 (1020.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0


veth6cc2f97: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::3485:4aff:fe87:17d0  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 36:85:4a:87:17:d0  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 1462  bytes 532768 (520.2 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1950  bytes 217359 (212.2 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0


[root@sandbox ~]#

[#12]

Back at it this morning and, while I don't quite get what's happening, I consider this resolved. This morning I did the following:

• removed a prior install of Apache Zeppelin after I realized that after a reboot, it still responded to localhost:8080
• confirmed it was indeed gone
• started up Virtual box and started the sandbox
• then zeppelin still responded to localhost:8080, which really confused me
• then tried localhost:9995, to which a different zeppelin page responded - so that was a good thing
• then, remembering something from a previous experience, I tried 127.0.0.1:8080 and then Ambari responded with its login page

This is now the second time I have seen localhost and 127.0.0.1 be treated differently; one of these days I'll have to figure out why. But for now, I'm back in business and continuing the tutorial.

Thanks everyone for their help!

Cecil