how to force name node to be active

[#1]

in our ambari cluster both name node are like standby

in order to force one of them to be active we do

 hdfs haadmin -transitionToActive --forceactive master01 

Illegal argument: Unable to determine service address for namenode 'master01'

but we get - Unable to determine service address

what this is indicate ? and how to fix this issue ?

[#2]

what we can do next in order to start one of the standby as active ?

[#3]

after 2 min we get that:

[#4]

and now ( after 15 min we get )

I not start anything second namenode became standby

[#5]

@Michael Bronson

Can you validate the entry was created.

[zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 1] ls /hadoop-ha/hdfsha

Check lock

[zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 2]  get /hadoop-ha/hdfsha/ActiveStandbyElectorLock

Check the status

$ hdfs haadmin -getServiceState namenode1 

$  hdfs haadmin -getServiceState namenode2

Try to failover

$ hdfs haadmin -failover

Use the below to force one to Active

$ hdfs haadmin -transitionToActive <serviceId> --forceactive

or

$ hdfs haadmin -transitionToStandby <serviceId>

Hope that helps

[#6]

[zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 14] ls /hadoop-ha/hdfsha
[
ActiveBreadCrumb]
[zk: localhost:2181(CONNECTED) 15]

[#7]

get  /hadoop-ha/hdfsha/ActiveBreadCrumb


hdfshann2master03.sys54.com �>(�>
cZxid = 0xce70000039b
ctime = Mon Dec 04 22:40:18 UTC 2017
mZxid = 0xce700000447
mtime = Mon Dec 04 23:06:32 UTC 2017
pZxid = 0xce70000039b
cversion = 0
dataVersion = 4
aclVersion = 0
ephemeralOwner = 0x0
dataLength = 42
numChildren = 0


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[#8]

[root@master01 hdfs]# hdfs haadmin -getServiceState master02 
Illegal argument: Unable to determine service address for namenode 'master02'
[root@master01 hdfs]# hdfs haadmin -getServiceState master03 
Illegal argument: Unable to determine service address for namenode 'master03'

[#9]

hdfs haadmin -transitionToActive master01 --forceactiv

transitionToActive:

incorrect arguments Usage: haadmin [-transitionToActive [--forceactive] <serviceId>]

[#10]

@Michael Bronson

Election issue !

[#11]

@Geoffrey - what you mean ?