How to downgrade the Cloudera Enterprise to Cloudera Express ?

[#1]

Hi Team,

Greetings....!!

My cluster license got expired and still it was showing "Cloudera Enterprise ".

Is any problem using after license expiration ?

Can some one suggest me how to downgrade to express edition ?

Thanks,

Vinod

[#2]

Hi Li,

I have removed the license key under "/opt/cloudera/bundle_dir" and restarted cloudera-scm-server and db and CMS too.

Still we can see the enterprise version, Can you please let me know if i am missing anything.

Please let me know how to remove manually.

Thanks,

Vinod

[#3]

Hello Li,

We were not able to access the above link what you have provided, Can you please provide me the steps here.

That would be great if you can help with that.

Best Regards,

Vinod

[#4]

Hello @lwang @EricL ,

Can you guys respond back with your comments please.

Thanks in advance....!!

Vinod

[#5 · Accepted solution]

Hi @kvinod ,

Here is the snippet from the article:

For CM 5.13.x and below, use the following process to remove the license manually from the database.

1. Log in to Cloudera Manager and stop the Cloudera Management Services. (Host Monitor, Event server, Alert Publisher, etc)

2. From the Cloudera Manager server shell, Stop Cloudera Manager.

service cloudera-scm-server stop

3. Confirm the Cloudera Managerdatabase instance name and credentials.
grep com.cloudera.cmf.db /etc/cloudera-scm-server/db.properties

com.cloudera.cmf.db.type=$DBTYPE
com.cloudera.cmf.db.host=$DBHOST:$DBPORT
com.cloudera.cmf.db.name=$DBNAME
com.cloudera.cmf.db.user=$DBUSER
com.cloudera.cmf.db.password=$DBPASS

For the remainder of this process the $DB variables will be used, please replace with your configured values. This document will cover $DBTYPE of Postgres or MySQL. $DBPORT may not exist in the properties file if using the default port.

4.Backup the database instance.
IMPORTANT: Ensure to create the database backup for this step.

For MySQL:
# mysqldump -h $DBHOST -P $DBPORT -u $DBUSER -p $DBNAME > /root/cmbak.`date +%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M`.sql

For Postgres:
# pg_dump -h $DBHOST -p $DBPORT -U $DBUSER -W $DBNAME > /root/cmbak.`date +%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M`.sql

5. Log in to the database
For MySQL:
# mysql -h $DBHOST -P $DBPORT -u $DBUSER -p $DBNAME

For Postgres:
# psql -h $DBHOST -p $DBPORT -U $DBUSER -W $DBNAME

Type the $DBPASS when requested.

6. Update the record to remove the license key.
update CONFIGS set VALUE = '' where ATTR = 'license_key';

7. Confirm the license key is removed.

select CONFIG_ID, ATTR, VALUE from CONFIGS where ATTR = 'license_key';
+-----------+-------------+-------+
| CONFIG_ID | ATTR | VALUE |
+-----------+-------------+-------+
| 79 | license_key | |
+-----------+-------------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

8. Quit database:

For MySQL:
mysql> quit

For Postgres:
scm> \q

9. Start Cloudera Manager from the server shell:
service cloudera-scm-server start

10. Login to Cloudera Manager and start the Cloudera Management Services. (Host Monitor, Event server, Alert Publisher, etc)

11. Restart the cluster services to confirm everything is okay.

Thanks and hope this helps,

Li