if you want to force cdp onto rocky8: echo "ID_LIKE=\"Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.7 (Ootpa)\"" >> /etc/rocky-release  this fixes install-agents hang echo "ID=\"rhel\"" >> /usr/lib/os-release this fixes install-parcels hang removing this ID var from os-release after deployment will cause hadoop to fail restart ... View more

The following always worked for me: kinit -kt hdfs.keytab hdfs hadoop fs -mkdir /benchmarks hadoop fs -chmod 0777 /benchmarks You can always lock down the directory permissions to only allow a certain group to write to this directory. ... View more

Has this situation improved over the past year?  Is there any public information on how to secure the back-end database connections?   ... View more

Assuming that you are referencing Cloudera Navigator Encrypt, as part of the process of encrypting a disk, you can move existing data onto that newly encrypted disk.  See the navencrypt-move command.   If you are referring to HDFS Transparent Encryption, then you must create a new encryption zone in HDFS (effectively a new directory) and then copy your HDFS data into it.  A lot of people ask "How can I encrypt an existing directory".  You would have to perform two extra steps and have plenty of available disk space:  1. Rename the existing directory in HDFS: "hdfs dfs -mv /data /data.bak" 2. Set up the encryption zone for /data. "hadoop key create <keyname>; hdfs dfs -mkdir /data; hdfs crypto -createZone -keyName <keyname> -path /data" 3. Copy the data in /data.bak to /data. "hdfs dfs -cp /data.bak/\* /data/" 4. Remove /data.bak. "hdfs dfs -rm -R /data.bak" ... View more

Thank you Michael. I appreciate the links. ... View more

@sridharm   Hue is not written in Java, thus the Oracle connector jar will not work.  You want the Oracle Instant Client for Hue Parcel. ... View more

Can you give me the exact AMI IDs that you are using to try out? ... View more