@gwsolutions The short answer: No, I don't know if you will have issues and I can't provide any guidance. The long answer: I personally would not be comfortable providing anyone any assurances that if they "just" avoid new installations, upgrades, adding new hosts, adding new clusters, or adding new services that they will absolutely not encounter any issues with their existing clusters. In theory, yes, those are the operations that would be affected by the recent private repository implementation , but I am not aware of anyone who has done comprehensive before-and-after testing of legacy versions of Cloudera Manager to prove it. I also have seen recent reports, both on this site and elsewhere, of Hadoop Administrators doing normal, everyday operations with Cloudera Manager that fail in unexpected ways after Cloudera implemented their private repositories policy because those operations depended upon access to assets on Cloudera's formerly public repositories in highly indirect ways and when that access was blocked, the operations failed in a manner that was difficult to troubleshoot. It could be that the Hadoop Administrators at those sites could have "just" set up local repositories to avoid this happening, but as a practical matter they didn't, so it doesn't matter now because it's too late. I know this isn't going to help much, but that's what I think.
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