@Geoffrey Shelton Okot So far my configuration is proper as per all of yours suggestion I don’t know what I am missing or what is going wrong how can I debug this to solve so that I can create a successful cluster and does not have to see the “unable to find cluster by ID” again. ... View more

@Geoffrey Shelton Okot Yes My local repository setup matches with the one that was shown in both the videos i am able to browse the files in the browser when i hit the following urls http://xxxxmaapl685.ad.infosys.com/Ambari-2.6.0.0/centos6 http://xxxxmaapl685.ad.infosys.com/hdp/HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.21/repos/centos6 http://xxxxmaapl685.ad.infosys.com/hdp/HDP/centos6/2.x/updates/2.6.3.0 Also i am using the default postgres that ambari installed. will that be a problem or should i configure Mysql ... View more

@Geoffrey Shelton Okot I have attached the hdp.repo and ambari.repo that i have in all my nodes. i have also done yum clean all and yum repolist before installing. The urls in the hdp.repo and ambari.repo is accesible from both the host as well hdprepo.txt ambarirepo.txt ... View more

@Geoffrey Shelton Okot The main issue that i am facing is "Unable to lookup the cluster by ID; assuming that there is no cluster and therefore no configs for this execution command: Cluster not found, clusterName=clusterID=-1" The only error that i see in ambari-server.log is during ambari-server start which is ERROR [main]StackContext:217-Couldnot load repo results java.net.UnknownHostException:public-repo-1.hortonworks.co even though i have set up my local yum repo as mentioned in the doc. i get success at step 3 of confirm hosts but the checking for additional warning is looping for infinite and when i see the log it gives unable to find cluster by iD ... View more

@Geoffrey Shelton Okot Can you please clarify on this The tar that i downloaded ambari-2.6.0.0-centos6.tar.gz when extracted the directory looks like "/<webserver>/ambari/centos6/2.6.0.0-267" HDP-2.6.3.0-centos6-rpm.tar.gz when extracted looks like "/<webserver>/HDP/centos6/2.6.3.0-235" HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.21-centos6.tar.gz when extracted does not create structure its just extracts in the same directory whereas in the doc it says Ambari Base URL http://<web.server>/Ambari-2.6.0.0/<OS>; HDP Base URL http://<web.server>/hdp/HDP/<OS>/2.x/updates/<latest.version>; HDP-UTILS Base URL http://<web.server>/hdp/HDP-UTILS-<version>/repos/<OS>; so should i manually go ahead and create these directories to look like above. ... View more

@Geoffrey Shelton Okot its already updated to point my local repository i thought that the repository url that i define in step 1 of install wizard will be used. But anyways my ambari.repo and hdp.repo in all my nodes are updated to point to local repo . should i create the directory as mentioned in the documents for the baseurl as the tar that i downloaded when extracted was not in that pattern. does it really matters. ... View more

@Jay Kumar SenSharma yes am bale to access the local repository from ambari-agent as well Also the error "15 Nov 2017 15:00:56,033 ERROR [main] StackContext:217 - Could not load repo results java.net.UnknownHostException: public-repo-1.hortonworks.com" comes immediately once i start my ambari-server. where will i configure ambari to look in to my local repo and not the public repo ... View more

yes, i am able to do wget on to my local repository from ambari agent as well also i tried yum install to check and it was able to connect to local repository. ... View more

@Jay Kumar SenSharma I am using local repository as i don't have internet connection on my nodes. I am giving the local repo details during step 1 (select versions) for hdp and hdputils. i have my host file will nodes fqdn in lowecase Thanks Rahul ... View more

Thanks @Jay Kumar SenSharma for your quick response As u said all the host entries , ntpd , selinux all set up properly but still the same issue persists. i am able to reach the ambari server host from agent at 8440 and 8441 i have also done the below steps several times but still same "Unable to lookup the cluster by ID" persists. # ambari-server stop # ambari-server reset -----> (this will clean up ambari DB to default state) # ambari-server start i am attaching the ambari-server.log ambari-server.txt Also attaching the Install wizard screenshot ambari.png Thanks Rahul ... View more