Oooh, awesome find! Looks like there's something up with our validation logic. Thanks for poking around, we'll look into this! ... View more

What version of CM are you using? ... View more

Oh, huh. This is unusual. Is there anything interesting in the Director logs relating to this? ... View more

Wow! I'm impressed. Thank you for the detailed instructions, and good work! I would like to reiterate that anyone who follows this advice does it at their own risk, just in case you missed jcpuskar's warning . 🙂 ... View more

Hello! Unfortunately, there's no way to do this in Director as you're suggesting. This API call is a placeholder, and doesn't support any actual updates.   Do you have the option of engaging support for this? That would be my recommended path forward.   It is possible to remove the encryption from Director's database (https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/director/2-8-x/topics/director_db_encryption.html), but any sort of DB editing is entirely unsupported. ... View more

The feature that John described above does not provide this functionality, and Director doesn't provide any way to make this work. It would be simple to create a new CM server (deployment) on the EU region and add the cluster to that, of course, but not to add that cluster to the US deployment. It is technically *possible* to create a cluster this way, but this would need to be accomplished outside of Director. It would require some network configuration that may be inadvisable, though I'm not an expert here and it's not something we'd be able to support of help with. ... View more

Can you give me the exact AMI IDs that you are using to try out? ... View more

Director installs Java 7 by default and has since version 1.0. Is it possible that Java is unexpectedly installed on the instance type that you're using? Director attempts to remove existing Java versions prior to installing its own version, but occasionally certain images have Java installed in ways that Director isn't anticipating. What version of Director are you using? Assuming that you're using AWS: what region and what AMI are you using to try to bootstrap the cluster? ... View more

Okay, hrm. Are you using the web UI, or a conf file to set up this cluster? If you're using a conf file, would you be able to post it on something like pastebin (being sure to redact anything sensitive like AWS secret keys, access keys, and SSH keys) and link it here? Also would you be able to give me the exact AMI ID that's being used? Are you certain you're using the same private key when trying to set up a cluster that you're using to SSH into raw instances? This error is still consistent with incorrect SSH credentials being supplied -- we just have to figure out exactly what's going on here. ... View more