I believe this wait time of 30s is hard coded into the cloudera agent. I don't think we can alter it other than doing a real dirty modification which I wouldn't recommend.   regards, Mathieu   ... View more

I think what you're describing is what we refer to as a "Gateway" machine.  On a cluster under Cloudera Manager's control, we allow you to add the "Gateway" role to a machine outside the cluster.  This installs the base CDH packages and deploys client configurations to that machine so that it can run regular hadoop commands like you describe and can upload files and run jobs against the cluster.   It sounds like your database server is already able to do this, can you clarify the question?   Regards. ... View more