Thanks for the tip. I have the same problem but alas I don't have the same skills & understanding of the ambari internals. Please tell me how you solved it -- where are the entries in the Ambari internal DB to fix, please? Thx very much ... View more

@Kent Brodie Great to hear that your issue is resolved. It will be wonderful if you can mark the answer of this thread as "Accepted" so that it will be useful for community. ... View more

Yeah, the decentralized nature of the keystores is... kind of a huge problem and like both you and I discovered, not inherently obvious. I still like the horton setup for ease of management... I *really* do. (Tried a hadoop cluster once built from scratch manually.. you have no ideas how bad that was). I'm discovering the "ease" of managing courtesy of Horton's setup really applies only about 90% of the time. The other 10% is a bitch. heh. With the Ambari UI, just about everything is there. Great! ALMOST. ... View more

This is the most correct answer..! I *thought* I was using one java, but discovered ranger was using another java that ambari itself installed in a totally different location. I added a ton of commentary below however for others to benefit from. ... View more

No problem @Kent Brodie, please feel free to upvote and/or accept helpful answers. ... View more