Lab Exercise 3: Add New

Hosts and Services to a

Cluster

Lab: Add New Host and Service to a Cluster

About this Lab
Objective: To be able to add new host and service on a HDP cluster
Slave-node03 has been added to the HDP cluster. A new service will be
Result: added
Pre-requisites: HDP is successfully installed, Ambari UI is working
Reference: Configuring HDP

Post-installation
Perform the following steps:
1. Add hosts to a cluster using Add Hosts Wizard

a. Login to Ambari dashboard with the username and password admin:

b. Click the Hosts tab at the upper right. Then click Actions button on the upper left
and select + Add New Hosts to start the Add Hosts Wizard.

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c. On the Install Options screen, enter hdpnode-hlc4.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com

then scroll down to the Host Registration Information section:

d. Scroll down to the Host Registration Information section, define the private key
of your master node. Ensure that the SSH User Account is hdplab and SSH Port
Number is 22.

e. Scroll down and click the Register and Confirm button.

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f. Wait for some initial verification to occur on your cluster. Once the process is
done, click the Next button to proceed (Please ignore all the warnings reported):

g. Assign all slave and client components and check the following components
(Datanode, Nodemanager, Client). Then click Next.

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h. Under Configurations, choose only Default then click Next

i. Notice that the Review page allows you to review your complete installation
configuration. If you’re satisfied that everything is correct, scroll to the bottom of
the page and click the Deploy button to start the installation process.

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j. The installation will take several minutes. When the hdpnode-

hlc4.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com installation has finished, click the Next button

k. Click the Complete button the next screen to be taken to the Hosts page. You
should see all four nodes listed

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2. Add New service on a HDP cluster.

a. On your Ambari Dashboard, click the Actions button in the lower left and then
click + Add Service

b. On choose Services screen, check Kafka as our new service to be added on our
HDP cluster. Scroll down to the bottom of the page then click Next button.

c. The Ambari wizard attempts to assign the various master services on appropriate
hosts in your cluster. Notice that the Kafka is assigned to master-node. Once
verified, scroll to the bottom of the screen, and click Next button.

d. In Assign all slave and client components, it will automatically skip

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e. Click on the Kafka tab and review the recommended configurations. Scroll to the
bottom of the screen, and click Next button.

f. There recommended changes window will show and click Proceed Anyway.

g. Notice that the Review page allows you to review your complete installation
configuration. If you’re satisfied that everything is correct, scroll to the bottom of
the page and click the Deploy button to start the installation process. (If you
need to go back and make changes, you can use the Back button

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h. Wait for Kafka and its components to install. It may take up to 30 minutes to
complete. You will see the progress under the Status column as components are
installed, tested, and started.

i. When finished, the Message will report “Success”. (If there are Warnings
encountered, please ignore). Click Next button.

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j. Check all configured services are on the expected nodes, then scroll down and
click the Complete button. You will be redirected to the Ambari Dashboard and
check the Kafka services is added.

RESULT: You have now added a new host and a service on a HDP cluster