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]

@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 ~]#

[#3]

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