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WebHCat Configuration

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Configuration Files

The configuration for WebHCat (Templeton) merges the normal Hadoop configuration with the WebHCat-specific variables. Because WebHCat is designed to connect services that are not normally connected, the configuration is more complex than might be desirable.

The WebHCat-specific configuration is split into two layers:

  1. webhcat-default.xml – All the configuration variables that WebHCat needs. This file sets the defaults that ship with WebHCat and should only be changed by WebHCat developers. Do not copy this file or change it to maintain local installation settings. Because webhcat-default.xml is present in the WebHCat war file, editing a local copy of it will not change the configuration.
  2. webhcat-site.xml – The (possibly empty) configuration file in which the system administrator can set variables for their Hadoop cluster. Create this file and maintain entries in it for configuration variables that require you to override default values based on your local installation.

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    The WebHCat server will require restart after any change to the configuration.

The configuration files are loaded in this order with later files overriding earlier ones:

  • To find the configuration files, WebHCat first attempts to load a file from the CLASSPATH and then looks in the directory specified in the TEMPLETON_HOME environment variable.

Configuration files may access the special environment variable env for all environment variables. For example, the Pig executable could be specified using:

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${env.PIG_HOME}/bin/pig

Configuration variables that use a filesystem path try to have reasonable defaults. However, it's always safe to specify the full and complete path if there is any uncertainty.

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The webhcat-log4j.properties file sets the location of the log files created by WebHCat and some other properties of the logging system.

Configuration Variables

Name

Description

templeton.port

The HTTP port for the main server.

templeton.hadoop.config.dir

The path to the Hadoop configuration.

Obsolete: templeton.jar

The path to the WebHCat jar file. (Not used in recent releases, so removed in Hive 0.14.0.)

templeton.libjars

Jars to add to the classpath.

templeton.override.jars

Jars to add to the HADOOP_CLASSPATH for all Map Reduce jobs. These jars must exist on HDFS.

templeton.override.enabled

Enable the override path in templeton.override.jars.

templeton.streaming.jar

The HDFS path to the Hadoop streaming jar file.

templeton.hadoop

The path to the Hadoop executable.

templeton.pig.archive

The path to the Pig archive.

templeton.pig.path

The path to the Pig executable.

templeton.hcat

The path to the HCatalog executable.

templeton.hive.archive

The path to the Hive archive.

templeton.hive.path

The path to the Hive executable.

templeton.hive.properties

Properties to set when running Hive. To use it in a cluster with Kerberos security enabled, set hive.metastore.sasl.enabled=false and add hive.metastore.execute.setugi=true. Using localhost in metastore uri does not work with Kerberos security.

templeton.exec.encoding

The encoding of the stdout and stderr data.

templeton.exec.timeout

How long in milliseconds a program is allowed to run on the WebHCat box.

templeton.exec.max-procs

The maximum number of processes allowed to run at once.

templeton.exec.max-output-bytes

The maximum number of bytes from stdout or stderr stored in ram.

templeton.controller.mr.child.opts

Java options to be passed to WebHCat controller map task.

templeton.exec.envs

The environment variables passed through to exec.

templeton.zookeeper.hosts

ZooKeeper servers, as comma-separated host:port pairs.

templeton.zookeeper.session-timeout

ZooKeeper session timeout in milliseconds.

templeton.callback.retry.interval

How long to wait between callback retry attempts in milliseconds.

templeton.callback.retry.attempts

How many times to retry the callback.

templeton.storage.class

The class to use as storage.

templeton.storage.root

The path to the directory to use for storage.

templeton.hdfs.cleanup.interval

The maximum delay between a thread's cleanup checks.

templeton.hdfs.cleanup.maxage

The maximum age of a WebHCat job.

templeton.zookeeper.cleanup.interval

The maximum delay between a thread's cleanup checks.

templeton.zookeeper.cleanup.maxage

The maximum age of a WebHCat job.

templeton.kerberos.secret

The secret used to sign the HTTP cookie value. The default value is a random value. Unless multiple WebHCat instances need to share the secret the random value is adequate.

templeton.kerberos.principal

The Kerberos principal to used by the server. As stated by the Kerberos SPNEGO specification, it should be USER/${HOSTNAME}@{REALM}. It does not have a default value.

templeton.kerberos.keytab

The keytab file containing the credentials for the Kerberos principal.

templeton.hadoop.queue.name

MapReduce queue name where WebHCat map-only jobs will be submitted to. Can be used to avoid a deadlock where all map slots in the cluster are taken over by Templeton launcher tasks.

Versions: Hive 0.12.0 and later.

templeton.mapper.memory.mb

WebHCat controller job's Launch mapper's memory limit in megabytes. When submitting a controller job, WebHCat will overwrite mapreduce.map.memory.mb with this value. If empty, WebHCat will not set mapreduce.map.memory.mb when submitting the controller job, therefore the configuration in mapred-site.xml will be used.

Versions: Hive 0.14.0 and later.

Default Values

Some of the default values for WebHCat configuration variables depend on the release number. For the default values in the Hive release you are using, see the webhcat-default.xml file. It can be found in the SVN repository at:

  • http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hive/branches/branch-<release_number>/hcatalog/webhcat/svr/src/main/config/webhcat-default.xml

where <release_number> is 0.11, 0.12, and so on. Prior to Hive 0.11, WebHCat was in the Apache incubator.

For example:

Default values prior to Hive 0.11 are listed in the HCatalog 0.5.0 documentation:

 

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