@Timothy Spann Were you able to configure TOAD with a kerberized cluster? ... View more

Hi Ali - With HDP2.5 Ambari can be used for this installation right? I am confused between : https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.5.0/bk_solr-search-installation/content/ch_hdp-search-install-ambari.html and https://doc.lucidworks.com/lucidworks-hdpsearch/2.5/Guide-Install-Ambari.html Do i have to do the first and then do the second ? ... View more

^ Great Article. 1.If you have a secured cluster managed by ranger ensure ambari-qa user has access to root.default queue. Many of our validations during the upgrade failed due to this. The SQL mentioned in the above article helped when we could not finalized the upgrade. Couple of components were stuck in State = 'UPGRADING'. The hdp-select did show the right versions. A Restart of ambari-agent on those nodes cleared this up. all the records were updated to upgraded and wer were able to proceed. SELECT rv.version, h.host_name, hv.state FROM repo_version rv JOIN host_version hv ON rv.repo_version_id = hv.repo_version_id JOIN hosts h ON hv.host_id = h.host_id where (STATE NOT IN ('CURRENT','UPGRADED') OR STATE='UPGRADING') ORDER BY rv.version ASC, h.host_name; ... View more

Hi Neeraj - Thanks for the post. Since current HDP doesn't ship with Drill , would it be reasonable to expect using the Drill ODBC Driver for HBASE Connectivity from Excel and other BI tools ? ( though its more of a MAPR Focus?) I would rather maintain one ODBC Driver vs having Drill for HBASE and HDP ODBC for Hive. ... View more