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Prerequisites: Before installing Ambari, the following software packages must be installed on your VM:

  • rpm

  • curl

  • wget

  • pdsh

  • ntpd?
  • scp?
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On CentOS: to check if a package is installed, run yum info <package-name>. To install a package, run yum install <package-name>.

To install Ambari, complete the following steps.

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  1. On the Ambari screen, login using default username admin, password admin.

  2. On the welcome page, choose "Launch Install Wizard."

  3. Specify a name for your cluster, and then click Next.

  4. On the Select Version page, choose which version of HDP to install, and then click Next.

  5. On the Install Options page, complete the following steps:

    1. List the FQDNs of the virtual machines. For example:

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      c7001.ambari.apache.org
      c7002.ambari.apache.org
      c7003.ambari.apache.org
      

      Alternatively, you can use a range expression:

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      c70[01-03].ambari.apache.org
      
    2. Upload the insecure_private_key file that you created earlier: browse to the ambari-vagrant directory, navigate to the operating system folder for your VM's, and choose the key file.

    3. Change the SSH User Account to vagrant.

    4. Click "Register and Confirm."

  6. On the Confirm Hosts page, Ambari displays installation status. If you see a yellow banner with the following message, click on the link to review warnings:     Some warnings were encountered while performing checks against the 3 registered hosts above Click here to see the warnings.

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    See the Troubleshooting section (later on this page) for more information.

  7. When all host checks pass, click close the warning window:
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  8. Click Next to continue.:
  9. On the Choose Services page, uncheck any components that you do not expect to use. If any are required for selected components, Ambari will request to add them back in.
  10. On the Assign Masters screen, choose hosts or simply click Next to use default values.
  11. On the Assign Slaves and Clients screen, choose hosts or simply click Next to use default values.
  12. On the Customize Services screen, review
    1. Review services with warning notes, such as Hive and Ambari Metrics in the following image:
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    2. Specify property values as directed by the installation wizard. When all configurations have been addressed, click Next.

  13. On the Review screen, review the service definitions, and then click Next.

  14. The Install, Start and Test page shows deployment status. This step takes several minutesa while.

+ Timeline for installing HDP, and mac hardware

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On the Host Checks window, the following warning indicates that you need to start ntpd processes on each host:

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To do this, navigate to a terminal window for each VM (from your Mac, vagrant ssh <VM-name>), and issue the following commands:

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