@GangWar I did what you asked and i get this on the agent:   [11/May/2020 05:22:34 +0000] 6495 MainThread agent INFO To override these variables, use /etc/cloudera-scm-agent/config.ini. Environment variables for CDH locations are not used when CDH is installed from parcels. [11/May/2020 05:22:36 +0000] 6495 MainThread supervisor INFO Trying to connect to supervisor (Attempt 1) [11/May/2020 05:22:36 +0000] 6495 MainThread supervisor INFO Supervisor version: 3.0, pid: 1614 [11/May/2020 05:22:36 +0000] 6495 MainThread supervisor INFO Successfully connected to supervisor [11/May/2020 05:22:36 +0000] 6495 MainThread agent INFO Supervisor version: 3.0, pid: 1614 [11/May/2020 05:22:36 +0000] 6495 MainThread agent INFO Connecting to previous supervisor: agent-1614-1589173066. [11/May/2020 05:22:38 +0000] 6495 MainThread supervisor INFO Triggering supervisord update. [11/May/2020 05:22:38 +0000] 6495 MainThread _cplogging INFO [11/May/2020:05:22:38] ENGINE Bus STARTING [11/May/2020 05:22:38 +0000] 6495 MainThread _cplogging INFO [11/May/2020:05:22:38] ENGINE Started monitor thread '_TimeoutMonitor'. [11/May/2020 05:22:38 +0000] 6495 MainThread _cplogging INFO [11/May/2020:05:22:38] ENGINE Serving on http://127.0.0.1:9001 [11/May/2020 05:22:38 +0000] 6495 MainThread _cplogging INFO [11/May/2020:05:22:38] ENGINE Bus STARTED [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MainThread daemon INFO New monitor: (<cmf.monitor.host.HostMonitor object at 0x7f46e2d12ed0>,) [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MonitorDaemon-Scheduler daemon INFO Monitor ready to report: ('HostMonitor',) [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MainThread agent INFO Setting default socket timeout to 45 [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MainThread agent INFO Failed to read available parcel file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/lib/cloudera-scm-agent/active_parcels.json' [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MainThread agent INFO Loading last saved hb response to complete initialization: /var/lib/cloudera-scm-agent/response.avro [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 Monitor-HostMonitor network_interfaces INFO NIC iface ens5 doesn't support ETHTOOL (95) [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MainThread heartbeat_tracker INFO HB stats (seconds): num:1 LIFE_MIN:0.02 min:0.02 mean:0.02 max:0.02 LIFE_MAX:0.02 [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MainThread agent INFO CM server guid: 513d3669-b5a8-49c0-863a-c0396dff5c7b [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MainThread agent INFO Using parcels directory from server provided value: /opt/cloudera/parcels [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MainThread parcel INFO Agent does create users/groups and apply file permissions [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MainThread downloader INFO Downloader path: /opt/cloudera/parcel-cache [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MainThread parcel_cache INFO Using /opt/cloudera/parcel-cache for parcel cache [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MainThread throttling_logger WARNING Failed parsing alternatives line: rename string index out of range link best version is /usr/bin/file-rename [11/May/2020 05:22:40 +0000] 6495 MainThread agent INFO Flood daemon (re)start attempt [11/May/2020 05:22:42 +0000] 6495 MainThread firehoses INFO Reporting interval updated: 5.0 -> 60 [11/May/2020 05:22:42 +0000] 6495 MainThread agent ERROR Failed to handle Heartbeat Response: {u'firehoses': [{u'rol [big response....] ----------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/cloudera/cm-agent/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cmf/agent.py", line 1528, in handle_heartbeat_response self._handle_heartbeat_response(response) File "/opt/cloudera/cm-agent/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cmf/agent.py", line 1661, in _handle_heartbeat_response self._update_parcel_activation_state(response) File "/opt/cloudera/cm-agent/lib/python2.7/site-packages/cmf/agent.py", line 1572, in _update_parcel_activation_state manage_old_parcels = old_response.get("create_parcel_symlinks") AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'   ... View more

Hi @lwang  Thanks for responding.   Ran this commands on the new host I am trying to add. Here are the outputs in order:   ls -altr /var/lib/cloudera-scm-agent total 36 drwxr-xr-x 46 root root 4096 Apr 21 22:41 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36 Apr 21 22:41 uuid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36 Apr 21 22:41 cm_guid -rw------- 1 root root 14575 May 5 02:19 response.avro drwxr-xr-x 2 cloudera-scm cloudera-scm 4096 May 5 02:19 . -rw------- 1 root root 2 May 6 03:09 active_parcels.json   ls -altr /opt/cloudera total 40 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 21 22:40 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 21 22:41 parcel-cache drwxr-xr-x 6 cloudera-scm cloudera-scm 4096 Apr 21 22:41 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Apr 27 02:59 cm-agent drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 20480 Apr 27 02:59 cm drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 4 02:03 parcels   ls -altr /opt/cloudera/parcels drwxr-xr-x 6 cloudera-scm cloudera-scm 4096 Apr 21 22:41 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 cloudera-scm cloudera-scm 4096 May 4 02:03 .flood drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 4 02:03 .   Please have a look. Thanks! ... View more

@GangWar I removed the link from configuration as I am not using accumulo. The download error is gone but the errors still persists. ... View more

@GangWar  Thanks for the help. I am attaching the link to log file from server and agent host.   Agent: https://ideone.com/TNKtRZ Server: https://ideone.com/RHt1Yl   Ps: Sorry there was an issue uploading the log file. I have uploaded the relevant portion. Please visit the link and download the log file (download at top of editor, below url box)  ... View more

@GangWar I do not see broken links in /etc/alternatives and there is no folder named /var/lib/alternatives.   Also, there are no parcel files downloaded on the new host. The parcel and parcel-cache folders are empty.   Should I add a more detailed log?  Thanks, ... View more

@GangWar  Thanks for the reply. But this didn't solve the issue. There is no parcel downloaded and no progress.  The same error appears on the agent as posted above.   For restarting the agent, I use sudo service cloudera-scm-agent restart.   Please let me know where I am going wrong. Thanks! ... View more