SenthilGM,   The CLI serves two purposes. It can be used as a standalone client to create clusters or it can be used to sends commands to a remote server. Note that the remote server may be running on the same instance as the CLI.   Please refer to the documentation for a description of local and remote commands. http://www.cloudera.com/documentation/director/latest/topics/director_cli_commands.html   Since the cluster was created in standalone mode, you can get the status of the cluster using the status command. E.g.,      cloudera-director status <conf.filename>   If you want to create the cluster on a remote server you can use the bootstrap-remote command instead of bootstrap. Please refer to the documentation on how to submit a conf file to the server. http://www.cloudera.com/documentation/director/latest/topics/director_server_submit.html   E.g., assuming the server is running locally with the default username and password, the command would be       cloudera-director bootstrap-remote <conf.filename> --lp.remote.username=admin --lp.remote.password=admin --lp.remote.hostAndPort=localhost:7189 ... View more