@Roroka,   I am very glad to hear that you got it working.   The reason I asked about Cloudera Express 6.x is that it does not have support for Auto-TLS. It is certainly possible to set up TLS manually (our docs cover that). If you have any questions, this community is a good place to ask.   Cheers. ... View more

@Debashish, yup, stderr.log looks good.  Please check your Region Server log file on that host (usually it is in /var/log/hbase with the name REGIONSERVER in it).  I am guessing you will see an attempt to start up and then a failure of sorts. ... View more

Sorry @Consult  I did not notice your question until now.  The business case is simple. Now a days many people do not use password to login to their window workstation. They use pin/with PIV card, face id, finger print, etc. to login to desktop. Some government agancies do not even give password to users to enforce users not to use password.    Now after login to the desktop account, the user need to login to cloudera CM with the same AD account they used to login to windows. but they don't have the password for the AD account, what can they do? ... View more

It would be safe if you remove balancer role. balancer is required only when there is data incosistency.stop the role and follow below steps. You can goto HDFS-> instances -> select balancer -> migrate roles and specify target host.   Regards, Asim   ... View more

@bgooley    Cloudera Navigator Metastore needs TLS password to be set in CM UI otherwise it wont start.   Thanks for the help to fix the issue.   - Vijay M ... View more

@Former Member,   I just worked with Cloudera engineering and we have fixed up the code logic that led to the false ERROR.  I tested and it looks good. We'll add the fix into future releases.   Cheers,   Ben ... View more