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In the wizard, you can specify a custom repository to obtain the Agent from. If you choose that option, you can put in your local repo and it will be used in place of archive.cloudera.com. Of course, you must properly mirror the packages and metadata to create a compliant apt or yum repository (depending on your distro) ... View more

Running a local http server is the best way to handle this situation, so I'm glad you did that.   We document how to set up a local parcel mirror here:   http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/documentation/core/latest/topics/cm_ig_create_local_parcel_repo.html   While it is technically possible to directly place files on disk and convince CM to use them, there are a lot of gotchas around it and so, this is not something we recommend any more. ... View more

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On each host, you have: /var/log/cloudera-scm-agent/process/<process-name>/logs/stderr.log ... View more

Where are you trying to echo variables? You won't see them set except from inside your environment script (which is sourced, so echo won't do anything). To see if your parcel's script is being sourced, look at the stderr.log for the process you think should be loading your parcel. ... View more

A tmpfs will default to a max size of 50% of physical RAM but this space is not allocated until its used, and tmpfs will be paged out to swap if there is memory pressure. ... View more

When you start a role, you are starting a process.   Let's use a concrete example.   * The lzo parcel contains the lzo plugin that's used by essentially all services in CDH. * You download and activate the lzo parcel. At this point, nothing changes - you need ot restart everything to pick up the new parcel * So you restart Hive (for example) * When the hive server process starts, the Agent will source the lzo parcel's env script which appends the lzo jar to the classpath. * Now the hive server is running with lzo support   The lzo parcel provides 'cdh-plugin' so this parcel will be loaded for all CDH processes. If a parcel provides 'hdfs-plugin' then it would only be loaded for HDFS, etc.   https://github.com/cloudera/cm_ext/wiki/The%20parcel.json%20file#providing-tags ... View more

The environment script is sourced as part of starting processes - it's not a global thing that happens when you activate the parcel. So, assuming you start a process after activating the parcel, and assuming your parcel's 'provides' tags match what the process' service is looking for, it should get sourced.   ... View more