@indu_thomas If you don't see mention of CDH Director 2.8.1 in the announcement I linked to earlier, then whether or not it will work with private repos is questionable. I personally haven't tried it, and no one I have talked to has tried it, either, and I assume they are all primarily de-motivated to do so by this passage from the aforementioned announcement: …new patch releases of Cloudera Manager and Ambari have been made available and are required to access Cloudera’s private repositories, which now contain these new and existing releases. Versions other than those outlined below will no longer be able to install CDH, HDP or HDF from Cloudera’s public repositories. Customers should strongly consider upgrading to one of the new Cloudera Manager or Ambari releases below as soon as possible, as well as updating any automated installation scripts with repository credentials and/or following the alternative steps described below. Emphasis in the original.   Not having access to your source code for your automation, the only thing I can say about having to redo your automation is that if your automation assumes that it will be able to access binaries from Cloudera's repositories, then it is going to have to access them in the manner described in that document.   Sorry I can't be of more help.     ... View more