I have configured ranger authorization for hive and want to force all the users to use beeline and want to block access to hive shell to all the users. I know one workaround - we can revoke execute access for below file on all hive-clients. /usr/hdp/current/hive-client/bin/hive By doing this it could cause an issue to jobs scheduled via workflow engines like oozie or azkabaan etc. Is there any other effective way to do this ? ... View more

I have namenode HA configured with Kerberos authentication, when ranger hdfs plugin is disabled, my hdfs services are running fine, when I enable ranger HDFS plugin then my namenode is unable to come up because of below error: File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ambari_simplejson/decoder.py", line 353, in raw_decode raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded") ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded I know there is know issue - if we change ranger admin UI password, then we also need to modify the same password in admin_password field under advance_ranger_configs section via Ambari UI. I tried doing the same thing but its not working. Anyone has any idea or has seen this issue in past ? ... View more

I know we can track installation status using below API call or from directly using Ambari UI. curl -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" -X GET -u admin:admin http://<ambari-hostname>:8080/api/v1/clusters/<cluster-name>/requests/ Is there any other efficient way to track the status of installation in an automated way ? ... View more

Can we set timeout parameter to create cluster API command using Ambari Blueprints ? ... View more