Updated on 2023-08-31 GMT+08:00

Preparing the Configuration Files for Connecting to the Cluster

During the development or a test run of the program, you need to use cluster configuration files to connect to an MRS cluster. The configuration files usually contain the cluster component information file. You can obtain the required information from the created MRS cluster.

Nodes used for program debugging or running must be able to communicate with the nodes within the MRS cluster, and the hosts domain name must be configured.

  • Scenario 1: Prepare the configuration files required for debugging in the local Windows development environment.
    1. Log in to FusionInsight Manager and choose Cluster > Dashboard > More > Download Client. Set Select Client Type to Configuration Files Only. Select the platform type based on the type of the node where the client is to be installed (select x86_64 for the x86 architecture and aarch64 for the Arm architecture) and click OK. After the client files are packaged and generated, download the client to the local PC as prompted and decompress it.

      For example, if the client file package is FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_Client.tar, decompress it to obtain FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_ClientConfig_ConfigFiles.tar. Then, decompress this file.

    2. Go to the Hive\config directory where the client is decompressed and obtain the configuration files listed in Table 1.
      Table 1 Configuration files

      File

      Description

      hiveclient.properties

      Configuration parameters for Hive client connection

      core-site.xml

      Hadoop client configuration parameters

    3. Copy the hosts file content from the decompression directory to the hosts file of the local PC.
      • If you need to debug the application in the local Windows environment, ensure that the local PC can communicate with the hosts listed in the hosts file.
      • If your PC cannot communicate with the network plane where the MRS cluster is deployed, you can bind an EIP to access the MRS cluster. For details, see Hive of the Cluster in Normal Mode Access Configuration on Windows Using EIPs.
      • The local hosts file in a Windows environment is stored, for example, in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.
  • Scenario 2: Prepare the configuration files required for running the program in a Linux environment.
    1. Install the client on a node.

      For example, the client installation directory is /opt/client.

      The difference between the client time and the cluster time must be less than 5 minutes.

    2. Obtain the configuration files.
      1. Log in to FusionInsight Manager and choose Cluster > Dashboard > More > Download Client. Set Select Client Type to Configuration Files Only. Select the platform type based on the type of the node where the client is to be installed (select x86_64 for the x86 architecture and aarch64 for the Arm architecture), select Save to Path, and click OK. Download the client configuration file to the active OMS node of the cluster.
      2. Log in to the active OMS node as user root, go to the directory where the client configuration file is stored (/tmp/FusionInsight-Client/ by default), decompress the software package, and obtain the configuration files listed in Table 1 from the Hive/config directory.

        For example, if the client software package is FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_Client.tar and the download path is /tmp/FusionInsight-Client on the active OMS node, run the following commands:

        cd /tmp/FusionInsight-Client

        tar -xvf FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_Client.tar

        tar -xvf FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_ClientConfig_ConfigFiles.tar

        cd FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_ClientConfig_ConfigFiles

    3. Check the network connection of the client node.

      During the client installation, the system automatically configures the hosts file on the client node. You are advised to check whether the /etc/hosts file contains the host names of the nodes in the cluster. If no, manually copy the content of the hosts file in the decompression directory to the hosts file on the node where the client is located, to ensure that the local host can communicate with each host in the cluster.