This is much clear now   On server side the request was rejected as the client was initiating non-ssl connection Caused by: org.apache.thrift.transport.TTransportException: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection? Client side it was unable to  trust the server certs as it was not configured to use a truststore Caused by: com.cloudera.hiveserver2.support.exceptions.GeneralException: [Cloudera][HiveJDBCDriver](500164) Error initialized or created transport for authentication: [Cloudera][HiveJDBCDriver](500169) Unable to connect to server: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target. You got to add few more properties to your connection string jdbc:hive2://vdbdgw01dsy.dsone.3ds.com:10000/default;AuthMech=1;KrbAuthType=1;KrbHostFQDN=vdbdgw01dsy.dsone.3ds.com;KrbRealm=DSONE.3DS.COM;KrbServiceName=hive;LogLevel=6;LogPath=d:/TestPLPFolder/hivejdbclog;SSL=1;SSLTrustStore=<path_to_truststore>;SSLTrustStorePwd=<password to truststore> If you dont have password to your truststore you can omit the parameter SSLTrustStorePwd   ... View more

After further review this seems to be somehow due to updating my Red Hat 7.2 packages (sudo yum update).   I noticed in my HDFS Configuration I was getting a notification   Mismatched CDH versions: host has NONE but role expect 5   Via Google I was able to see that others had fixed the problem by removing OpenJDK from their system and using the Oracle or Cloudera provided JDK.  Since I had the cloudera version I went ahead made the configuration changes necessary to use that  (for me this was /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_67-cloudera).     ... View more

I was able to get my Domain admin to grant delegation on my Hadoop OU, so I didn' thave to do in manually thank goodness. ... View more