We are tryng the same thing. However when we execute our code, it asks for the Kereros Credentials. Is there anyway to authenticate solr user using Keytab files? ... View more

Don't know the exact cause that it was not working even i restarted the Yarn, when i had another chance to restart the Yarn, the issue was resolved. ... View more

Glad the issue the resolved but try to use some other location to store those jars instead of /opt/cloudera/parcels as when you upgrade you can lose all those jars. ... View more

Yes, thats correct. You can get more details here https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/5-9-x/topics/search_sentry.html   Also, Now sentry as a service is also provided for solr you can use that too and use solr sentry tool commands ... View more

The only current way to log solr request queries is:   Please set log4j.logger.org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.Request=DEBUG to show queries before they are executed. Add this snippet to: Cloudera Manager --> Solr --> Configuration --> Solr Server Logging Advanced Configuration Snippet (Safety Valve) If this is set, queries will show a DEBUG log entry before they are executed, then an INFO with qtime and numDocs returned ... View more

Simple solr indexing example using post:   http://www.solrtutorial.com/solr-in-5-minutes.html   or you can use solrj   http://www.solrtutorial.com/solrj-tutorial.html   even you can try indexing using flume and moprhline solr sink   https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/5-5-x/topics/search_tutorial.html ... View more

Were you running the above commands from one of the solr nodes or the node which had the solr gateway on it? Did you have any solr node down when you were deleting or creating a collection as taking time issue can happen that time? Did you see any unexpected exits with solr like out of memory issues?   As taking the time can either happen when no solr gateway but that time it will throw some error after a certain time.   or if you had any shard down for the collection you were trying to delete then restart may have helped with that. ... View more

Hi,       Is this still a requirement in 0.9.0.1 or 0.10 of kafka release?  We are currently on 0.9.0.1 but may upgrade to 0.10 soon. Restart is not a feasible option for us for altering retention period for a topic.   Regards Swami ... View more