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Cloudera Manager Admin Console

Cloudera Manager Admin Console is the web-based interface that you use to configure, manage, and monitor Cloudera Runtime.

The Cloudera Manager Admin Console side navigation bar provides the following tabs and menus:
  • Search - Supports searching for services, roles, hosts, configuration properties, and commands. You can enter a partial string and a drop-down list with up to sixteen entities that match will display.
  • Clusters > cluster_name
    • Services - Display individual services, and the Cloudera Management Service. In these pages you can:
      • View the status and other details of a service instance or the role instances associated with the service
      • Make configuration changes to a service instance, a role, or a specific role instance
      • Add and delete a service or role
      • Stop, start, or restart a service or role.
      • View the commands that have been run for a service or a role
      • View an audit event history
      • Deploy and download client configurations
      • Decommission and recommission role instances
      • Enter or exit maintenance mode
      • Perform actions unique to a specific type of service. For example:
        • Enable HDFS high availability or NameNode federation
        • Run the HDFS Balancer
        • Create HBase, Hive, and Sqoop directories
    • Cloudera Manager Management Service - Manage and monitor the Cloudera Manager Management Service. This includes the following roles: Activity Monitor, Alert Publisher, Event Server, Host Monitor, Navigator Audit Server, Navigator Metadata Server, Reports Manager, and Service Monitor.
    • Hosts - Displays the hosts in the cluster.
    • Reports - Create reports about the HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, and Impala usage and browse HDFS files, and manage quotas for HDFS directories.
    • Utilization Report - Opens the Cluster Utilization Report. displays aggregated utilization information for YARN and Impala jobs.
    • MapReduce_service_name Jobs - Query information about MapReduce jobs running on your cluster.
    • YARN_service_name Applications - Query information about YARN applications running on your cluster.
    • Impala_service_name Queries - Query information about Impala queries running on your cluster.
    • Dynamic Resource Pools - Manage dynamic allocation of cluster resources to YARN and Impala services by specifying the relative weights of named pools.
    • Static Service Pools - Manage static allocation of cluster resources to HBase, HDFS, Impala, MapReduce, and YARN services.
  • Hosts - Display the hosts managed by Cloudera Manager.
    • All Hosts - Displays a list of manage hosts in the cluster.
    • Add Hosts - Launches the Add Hosts wizard.
    • Parcels - Displays parcels available in the cluster and allows you to download, distribute, and activate new parcels.
    • Hosts Configuration - Opens the Hosts Configuration page where you can configure hosts and specify overrides for globally-configured properties for one or more hosts.
    • Roles - Displays the roles deployed on each host.
    • Host Templates - Create and manage Host Templates, which define sets of role groups that can be used to easily expand a cluster.
    • Disks Overview - Displays the status of all disks in the cluster.
    In this page you can:
    • View the status and a variety of detail metrics about individual hosts
    • Make configuration changes for host monitoring
    • View all the processes running on a host
    • Run the Host Inspector
    • Add and delete hosts
    • Create and manage host templates
    • Manage parcels
    • Decommission and recommission hosts
    • Make rack assignments
    • Run the host upgrade wizard
  • Diagnostics - Review logs, events, and alerts to diagnose problems. The subpages are:
    • Events - Search for and displaying events and alerts that have occurred.
    • Logs - Search logs by service, role, host, and search phrase as well as log level (severity).
    • Server Log -Display the Cloudera Manager Server log.
  • Audits - Query and filter audit events across clusters, including logins, across clusters.
  • Charts - Query for metrics of interest, display them as charts, and display personalized chart dashboards.
  • Replication - Manage replication schedules and snapshot policies.
  • Administration - Administer Cloudera Manager. The subpages are:
    • Settings - Configure Cloudera Manager.
    • Alerts - Display when alerts will be generated, configure alert recipients, and send test alert email.
    • Users & Roles - Manage Cloudera Manager users and their assigned roles, and sessions.
    • Security - Generate Kerberos credentials and inspect hosts.
    • License - Manage Cloudera licenses.
    • Language - Set the language used for the content of activity events, health events, and alert email messages.
    • External Accounts - Configure connectivity from cloud services to Cloudera Manager.
  • Parcels Opens the Parcels page where you can view the status of installed and available parcels.
  • Recent Commands Indicator - displays the status commands currently or recently running for all services or roles.
  • Support - Displays various support actions. The subcommands are:
    • Send Diagnostic Data - Sends data to Cloudera Support to support troubleshooting.
    • Support Portal (Cloudera Enterprise) - Displays the Cloudera Support portal.
    • Scheduled Diagnostics: Weekly - Configure the frequency of automatically collecting diagnostic data and sending to Cloudera support.
    • The following links open the latest documentation on the Cloudera web site:
      • Help
      • Installation Guide
      • API Documentation
      • API Explorer (Cloudera Manager Swagger interface)
      • Release Notes
    • About - Version number and build details of Cloudera Manager and the current date and time stamp of the Cloudera Manager server.
  • Logged-in User Menu - The currently logged-in user. The subcommands are:
    • My Profile - Displays the role and login information for the current user.
    • Change Password - Change the password of the currently logged in user.
    • Logout