Not getting e-mails when starting Cloudera Live stack in Amazon.

[#1]

I registered for the demo trial and selected the Amazon Cloudera option (with Zoomdata).  The first time I tried, the formation said it started, Amazon instances showed up running, and I got an e-mail directing me to the Guidance Page.   I went to the Guidance Page where it showed the progress bar at 88%.  But, it would not go any further and the page appeared to be looping.

I shut everything down and restarted twice.  Now, I see the formation as created and the instances show up, but I get no e-mails at all.   Just for fun I tried connecting to the manager node address through the browser but my browser tells me it can't find the page.

Note:  I used the same Access Code for each attempt.

What am I doing wrong?

[#2]

Went against the default Cloudera Manager port:

That looks to be up to although I have not worked with it before.  

[#3]

So if you restarted your instances before the deployment finished, the dpeloyment will not have finished. You may be missing datasets or some configuration in your cluster. If you didn't already read it, read the "Stopping and Starting Instances" section of the documentation, as there are some other caveats you should be aware of:

http://www.cloudera.com/get-started/cloudera-live/aws-documentation.html

[#4]

I only stopped the instances on the latest attempts after I had gotten the page with all the links.  In other words, it looked done.  But, I had not received any e-mail messages.  So, that is when I stopped.   I'm getting to Hue and the Cloudera Manager.  I'm also in through SSH doing some spark-shell work to prepare.  But, the installation page that I started this morning is still on 96%.   I would have thought that when I went to the screen again this morning that it would have simply shown me the links.

Is there any quick way you can tell if my installation looks good?

And, since I don't have the links page (yet), how do I get to Zoomdata?

[#5]

In either CloudFormation or your list of instances, the instance Zoomdata
running on is specifically tagged. On that instance on port 8080, Zoomdata
should be running. But again, Zoomdata and the data for that tutorial is
one of the last things to be set up. I can look up your clusters and see
more specifically what's going on, but it's much easier if you can send me
a private message with the access code you used for a given attempt.

[#6]

2fMDMN2ov6zxFoMr is the Access Code.
I just started up the instances for today's session: You can reach the
manager at: 54.152.109.102

Thanks for the help.

[#7]

That doesn't appear to be a valid access code and I can't find any new
access codes with the same name as the ones I was looking at last week. You
say you 'started up the instances' for today's session: again, restarting
or stopping instances before the deployment has finished will fail, and
there's no recovering from that. I started investigating the other failure
that's now been seen twice during our Zoomdata deployment. I have not yet
gotten to the bottom of that, so I'll still need to find out why that's
happening and get back to you. Given that your current master node's
progress bar is stuck on that step, it's possible you're hitting that
failure again.

[#8]

Do you think I should terminate my current formation and start a new one?

[#9]

So I can't tell you anything about your current formation because as I
said, that access code appears to be incorrect, so I can't pull up the
logs. I tried some Zoomdata deployments and did run into one issue with
some operations timing out because they were trying to reach a Zoomdata
package repository that no longer exists. I have fixed that problem so it
shouldn't affect any new deployments. It's possible that was affecting your
previous attempts, but not in the logs I've found that appear to match your
forum username.

So if you do try another deployment, just be sure you have a new access
code that you haven't used before, and don't pause the instances
prematurely.

[#10 · Accepted solution]

OK. I will close down my current formation, get a new access code and try
again. Thanks.

[#11]

Just an FYI.   This last time the install went fine.   After Cloudera came up, Zoomdata was also available.   Neat stuff!

Thanks