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Problem scenario
You are trying to add a DataNode to an existing Hadoop cluster. There are numerous problems. What do you do to troubleshoot the process?
Possible solutions
1. New versions of Hadoop use a “workers” file — not a “slaves” file.
2. Do you have a DNS solution in place for your DataNode and NameNode to resolve each other? If you do not have a DNS server,
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Problem scenario
You want to get Hadoop’s web UI to work. You have access to the back-end of a Linux server. How do you get the front-end of Hadoop (or hdfs) to work?
Solution
1. Deploy Hadoop. See this link for directions for any type of Linux.
2. Start the Hadoop services. For a single-node deployment of Hadoop use sudo find / -name start-dfs.sh to find it;
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Problem scenario
You want to get Hadoop’s web UI to work. You have access to the back-end of a Linux server. How do you get the front-end of Hadoop (or hdfs) to work?
Solution
1. Deploy Hadoop. See this article if you need help with how to do it.
2. From the NameNode server in a multi-node deployment or from the single Hadoop server,
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Problem scenario
You want to see which datanodes are active underlying a given hdfs system. You also want to know statistics about the storage usage. If you are regularly adding data to your hdfs system, you want to stay below 70% utilization. If you want your hdfs system to perform well but you are not regularly adding new files, you want to stay under 80%. How do you find out about the storage usage of your datanodes that support your hdfs system?
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Problem scenario
You are trying to run a Hadoop operation. You issue your “hadoop jar” or “hdfs jar” command. You get one of these errors:
“Error: Could not find or load main class jar”
or this error
“Error: Could not find or load main class hadoop-streaming-2.8.1.jar”
What is wrong?
Solution
1. Use “hadoop…” instead of “hdfs”.
2.
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Problem scenario
You want to learn more about MapReduce. You want to learn what it does so you can grasp Hadoop more thoroughly. What is MapReduce?
Solution
MapReduce is a core process of Hadoop. With multi-node deployments of Hadoop, MapReduce distributes data to different datanodes (servers that are controlled by a master server). This data is retrievable thanks to MapReduce. Conceptually there are two main components to MapReduce: mapper and reducer.
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Problem scenario
An hdfs command hangs (or appears to be hung). To interrupt the command, you try ctrl-c. But this does nothing. How do you cancel out?
Solution
Use ctrl-z. This will suspend the job. You can then kill it with kill, kill 9, or some other means.
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Problem scenario
You try to start Hadoop’s dfs in a multi-node deployment. All the Hadoop nodes are running Linux. You run this:
bash /usr/local/hadoop/sbin/start-dfs.sh
You see this:
Starting namenodes on [hadoopmaster]
hadoopmaster: starting namenode, logging to /usr/local/hadoop/logs/hadoop-root-namenode-hadoopmaster.out
root@hadoopdatanode’s password: localhost: starting datanode, logging to /usr/local/hadoop/logs/hadoop-root-datanode-hadoopmaster.out
hadoopmaster: starting datanode, logging to /usr/local/hadoop/logs/hadoop-root-datanode-hadoopmaster.out
localhost: ulimit -a for user root
localhost: core file size
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Updated 1/30/18
Problem scenario
You want to deploy open-source Hadoop as a multi-node cluster to some Linux servers (e.g., two more more servers as opposed to a single-server deployment). You want to use AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform Linux servers, possibly in a cross-cloud configuration (using two or three public cloud services). What do you do to install and configure Hadoop to leverage two or more computers in a potentially hybrid cloud environment?
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Problem scenario
You have studied what a MapReduce job is conceptually. But you want to try it out. You have a Linux server with the Hadoop namenode (aka master node) installed on it. How do you run a MapReduce job [to understand what it is all about]?
Solution
This is just an example. We tried to make this as simple as possible. This assumes that Python has been installed on the Hadoop namenode (aka master node) running on Linux.
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