I have the same issue and in my case it is a Kerberos-enabled cluster. I modified the beeline command as follows:   ${HIVE_HOME}/bin/beeline -u "jdbc:hive2://<server_name>:10015/default ssl=true;principal=<principal_name>/<hostname>@<REALM>;auth=kerberos; '' ''" "$@"   I get two errors: - Unknown HS2 problem when communicating with Thrift server. - Error: Could not open client transport with JDBC Uri: jdbc:hive2://<node_name>:10015/default: Invalid status 21 (state=08S01,code=0)   I would appreciate any help. ... View more