Installing a Client (Version 3.x or Later)

Updated on 2024-03-18 GMT+08:00

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Scenario

This section describes how to install clients of all services (excluding Flume) in an MRS cluster. For details about how to install the Flume client, see Installing the Flume Client.

A client can be installed on a node inside or outside the cluster. This section uses the installation directory //opt/client as an example. Replace it with the actual one.

Prerequisites

A Linux ECS has been prepared. For details about the supported OS of the ECS, see Table 1.

**Table 1** Reference list
CPU Architecture	OS	Supported Version
x86 computing	Euler	Euler OS 2.5
	SuSE	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 (SUSE 12.4)
	Red Hat	Red Hat-7.5-x86_64 (Red Hat 7.5)
	CentOS	CentOS 7.6
Kunpeng computing (Arm)	Euler	Euler OS 2.8
Kunpeng computing (Arm)	CentOS	CentOS 7.6

In addition, sufficient disk space is allocated for the ECS, for example, 40 GB.

The ECS and the MRS cluster are in the same VPC.
The security group of the ECS must be the same as that of the master node in the MRS cluster.
The NTP service has been installed on the ECS OS and is running properly.
If the NTP service is not installed, run the yum install ntp -y command to install it when the yum source is configured.
A user can log in to the Linux ECS using the password (in SSH mode).

Installing a Client on a Node Inside a Cluster

Obtain the software package.
Log in to FusionInsight Manager. For details, see Accessing FusionInsight Manager (MRS 3.x or Later). Click the name of the cluster to be operated in the Cluster drop-down list.

Choose More > Download Client. The Download Cluster Client dialog box is displayed.
NOTE:

In the scenario where only one client is to be installed, choose Cluster > Service > Service name > More > Download Client. The Download Client dialog box is displayed.
Set the client type to Complete Client.
Configuration Files Only is to download client configuration files in the following scenario: After a complete client is downloaded and installed and administrators modify server configurations on Manager, developers need to update the configuration files during application development.

The platform type can be set to x86_64 or aarch64.
- x86_64: indicates the client software package that can be deployed on the x86 servers.
- aarch64: indicates the client software package that can be deployed on the TaiShan servers.
NOTE:

The cluster supports two types of clients: x86_64 and aarch64. The client type must match the architecture of the node for installing the client. Otherwise, client installation will fail.
Select Save to Path and click OK to generate the client file.
The generated file is stored in the /tmp/FusionInsight-Client directory on the active management node by default. You can also store the client file in a directory on which user omm has the read, write, and execute permissions. Copy the software package to the file directory on the server where the client is to be installed as user omm or root.

The name of the client software package is in the follow format: FusionInsight_Cluster_<Cluster ID>_Services_Client.tar.

The following steps and sections use FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_Client.tar as an example.
NOTE:

If you cannot obtain the permissions of user root, use user omm.

To install the client on another node in the cluster, run the following command to copy the client to the node where the client is to be installed:

scp -p /tmp/FusionInsight-Client/FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_Client.tar IP address of the node where the client is to be installed:/opt/Bigdata/client
Log in to the server where the client software package is located as user user_client.
Decompress the software package.
Go to the directory where the installation package is stored, such as /tmp/FusionInsight-Client. Run the following command to decompress the installation package to a local directory:

tar -xvf FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_Client.tar
Verify the software package.
Run the following command to verify the decompressed file and check whether the command output is consistent with the information in the sha256 file.

sha256sum -c FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_ClientConfig.tar.sha256
```
FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_ClientConfig.tar: OK
```
Decompress the obtained installation file.
tar -xvf FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_ClientConfig.tar
Go to the directory where the installation package is stored, and run the following command to install the client to a specified directory (an absolute path), for example, /opt/client:
cd /tmp/FusionInsight-ClientFusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_ClientConfig

Run the ./install.sh /opt/client command to install the client. The client is successfully installed if information similar to the following is displayed:
```
The component client is installed successfully
```
NOTE:
- If the clients of all or some services use the /opt/client directory, other directories must be used when you install other service clients.
- You must delete the client installation directory when uninstalling a client.
- To ensure that an installed client can only be used by the installation user (for example, user_client), add parameter -o during the installation. That is, run the ./install.sh /opt/client -o command to install the client.
- If an HBase client is installed, it is recommended that the client installation directory contain only uppercase and lowercase letters, digits, and characters (_-?.@+=) due to the limitation of the Ruby syntax used by HBase.

Using a Client

On the node where the client is installed, run the sudo su - omm command to switch the user. Run the following command to go to the client directory:
cd /opt/client
Run the following command to configure environment variables:
source bigdata_env
If Kerberos authentication is enabled for the current cluster, run the following command to authenticate the user. If Kerberos authentication is disabled for the current cluster, skip this step.
kinit MRS cluster user

Example: kinit admin

NOTE:

User admin is created by default for MRS clusters with Kerberos authentication enabled and is used for administrators to maintain the clusters.
Run the client command of a component directly.
For example, run the hdfs dfs -ls / command to view files in the HDFS root directory.

Installing a Client on a Node Outside a Cluster

Create an ECS that meets the requirements in Prerequisites.
Perform NTP time synchronization to synchronize the time of nodes outside the cluster with that of the MRS cluster.
1. Run the vi /etc/ntp.conf command to edit the NTP client configuration file, add the IP addresses of the master node in the MRS cluster, and comment out the IP address of other servers.
```
server master1_ip prefer
server master2_ip 
```
  Figure 1 Adding the master node IP addresses
2. Run the service ntpd stop command to stop the NTP service.
3. Run the /usr/sbin/ntpdate IP address of the active master node command to manually synchronize time.
4. Run the service ntpd start or systemctl restart ntpd command to start the NTP service.
5. Run the ntpstat command to check the time synchronization result.
Perform the following steps to download the cluster client software package from FusionInsight Manager, copy the package to the ECS node, and install the client:
1. Log in to FusionInsight Manager and download the cluster client to the specified directory on the active management node by referring to Accessing FusionInsight Manager (MRS 3.x or Later) and Installing a Client on a Node Inside a Cluster.
2. Log in to the active management node as user root and run the following command to copy the client installation package to the target node:
  scp -p /tmp/FusionInsight-Client/FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_Client.tar IP address of the node where the client is to be installed:/tmp
3. Log in to the node on which the client is to be installed as the client user.
  Run the following commands to install the client. If the user does not have operation permissions on the client software package and client installation directory, grant the permissions using the root user.
  
  cd /tmp
  
  tar -xvf FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_Client.tar
  
  tar -xvf FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_ClientConfig.tar
  
  cd FusionInsight_Cluster_1_Services_ClientConfig
  
  ./install.sh /opt/client
4. Run the following commands to switch to the client directory and configure environment variables:
  cd /opt/client
  
  source bigdata_env
5. If Kerberos authentication is enabled for the current cluster, run the following command to authenticate the user. If Kerberos authentication is disabled for the current cluster, skip this step.
  kinit MRS cluster user
  
  Example: kinit admin
6. Run the client command of a component directly.
  For example, run the hdfs dfs -ls / command to view files in the HDFS root directory.