Hi Community, I am also getting the same error message while starting cloudera manager. Please find the below logs and assist me   Caused by: com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.MySQLSyntaxErrorException: Unknown column 'VERSION' in 'where clause' at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423) at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.handleNewInstance(Util.java:425) at com.mysql.jdbc.Util.getInstance(Util.java:408) at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:944) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3976) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:3912) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sendCommand(MysqlIO.java:2530) at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.sqlQueryDirect(MysqlIO.java:2683) at com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.execSQL(ConnectionImpl.java:2486) at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeInternal(PreparedStatement.java:1858) at com.mysql.jdbc.PreparedStatement.executeQuery(PreparedStatement.java:1966) at com.mchange.v2.c3p0.impl.NewProxyPreparedStatement.executeQuery(NewProxyPreparedStatement.java:76) at org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.ResultSetReturnImpl.extract(ResultSetReturnImpl.java:56) ... View more

Also make sure that the HDFS Data Node is running on that server. ... View more

Thanks for the tip on the CM API, wasn't aware it had one. Knowing that little bit I was able to find an example that uses Ansible: https://github.com/ymc-geko/ansible-cdh-cluster. There's an article discussing it here as well: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/08/how-to-install-cloudera-manager-and-search-with-ansible/. ... View more

Not sure if I’m answering your question: - do certifications retire? Sure. We haven’t yet retired one but a certification program can retire if the market changes and we need to end or change a program. I’m using the term certification to mean a certification not an exam. - do exams retire? Yes, but CCD-410 is current to C5. There is not, nor will there be a CCD-5x exam. ... View more