HDFS Agents Preparations

As there are several different distributions of Hadoop available, you may have to create your own mzp package containing the specific Hadoop jar files to be used, and commit this package into your system in order to start using the HDFS agents. This is required when you are using a different distribution than the one that is available at hadoop.apache.org. The included mzp package has been tested with Apache Hadoop version 2.7.3.

To create and commit the Hadoop mzp package:

1. Copy the set of jar files for the Hadoop version you want to use to the machine that is running on.

   The set of jar files comprises hadoop-auth, hadoop-common, hadoop-hdfs, commons-collections and jets. If any of these files do not exist, or do not work, contact support.

   Depending on the file structure, the files may be located in different folders, but typically they will be located in a folder called hadoop, or hadoop-common, where the hadoop-common.jar file is placed in the root directory, and the rest of the jar files are placed in a subdirectory called /lib.
    

2. Set a variable called $FILES for all the different jars.

   
   
   

3. Create the mzp package:

   mzsh pcreate "Apache Hadoop" "<distribution>" apache_hadoop_cdh4.mzp -level platform -osgi true $FILES

4. Commit the new package:

   mzsh mzadmin/<password> pcommit apache_hadoop_<application>.mzp

5. Restart the Platform and ECs:

   mzsh shutdown platform <ec> <ec> mzsh startup platform <ec> <ec>