Oozie SLA email alert

[#1]

Hi,

In the demo here: http://gethue.com/hadoop-tutorial-monitor-and-get-alerts-for-your-workflows-with-the-oozie-slas,

there is a comment in the text: “We do not cover setup of JMS notifications here. JMS enables clients to be alerted in real time of the notifications (instead of pooling like in this tutorial). With Hue, you can visualize the success of your job in a timelime and setup email-notification in case of alerts.”

Could someone clarify this for me? What I need to know is: do I need to setup JMS notifications in order for the email-notification to work? Or is it just sufficient to enter the email adress in Hue? Is there any other configuration needed for emails, e.g. set up of SMPT server details in cloudera manager etc?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

You don't need JMS to get SLA emails from Oozie. They'll be kind of ugly, but you just enable SLAs (this is in the newest CM as a checkbox) and add the config described here: http://oozie.apache.org/docs/4.0.0/AG_Install.html#Notifications_Configuration to your safety valves for oozie-site.xml

[#3]

Thanks! I got it to work after discovering that I should use the Safety Valve configuration for setting configs not exposed explicitly in Cloudera Manager. Before that I had tried manually changing some config files, but these changes were never used.