Please refer to the Ranger user sync doc...some of the properties may not have been set as recommended by the doc: http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-... Can you try changing the below property: ranger.usersync.ldap.user.groupnameattribute ..to the below value instead? Then restart Ranger components via Ambari (while tailing the same log file) and check Ranger UI again? memberof, ismemberof ... View more

Yes Spark 1.4.1 is installed on the latest Sandbox. You can find version details for each component in the release notes available here: http://hortonworks.com/products/hortonworks-sandbo... For the current sandbox the release notes are available here http://hortonworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/... ... View more

+ @Alejandro Fernandez @smohanty For sample upgrade code for Ambari services, you can look at existing Ambari services for example of this. In Hbase master service, you will find the method to be overridden: https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/trunk/ambari... Here is the upgrade class being called: https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/trunk/ambari... To get configurations from components of existing services, you can use the config object to do this in params.py. In the above Hbase example, you can see some samples here https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/trunk/ambari... Some code samples of more basic Ambari services are available below..these may be useful for those getting started with building services (but so far they don't implement the upgrade hooks) http://hortonworks.com/partners/learn/#ambari For more details on how rolling/express upgrades work from end user perspective, you can check the below article https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/2473/ro... ... View more

It sounds like you are trying to start a sandbox VM on a VM you brought up in Azure? If so this may not be supported. The common way to use HDP 2.3.2 Sandbox in Azure is this: http://hortonworks.com/blog/hortonworks-sandbox-wi... ... View more

I would recommend looking at code for HBASE as an example as it has master, slaves and client https://github.com/apache/ambari/tree/trunk/ambari... In the metainfo.xml you specify which code should get executed on the master (ie hbase_master.py), clients (hbase_client.py) and slaves (hbase_regionserver.py) ... View more