Ambari REST API explorer view

Demo view to manage Ambari via REST calls using some sample operations:

• Export blueprint

• Get status of components

• Stop/Start services

• Add your own operations

• Note: ALL requests are passing in 'X-Requested-By: ambari' header. This is why the requests will not work via the browser

Author: Ali Bajwa

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Setup

• Download latest HDP sandbox VM image (e.g. Sandbox_HDP_2.3_VMware.ova) from Hortonworks website
• Import Sandbox_HDP_2.3_VMware.ova into VMWare and set the VM memory size to 8GB
• Now start the VM
• After it boots up, find the IP address of the VM and add an entry into your machines hosts file e.g.

192.168.191.241 sandbox.hortonworks.com sandbox    

• Connect to the VM via SSH (password hadoop)

ssh root@sandbox.hortonworks.com

• Install Maven

curl -o /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo https://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dchen/apache-maven/epel-apache-maven.repo
yum -y install apache-maven-3.2*

• To deploy the view, run below. On non-sandbox env, these steps should be run on node running Ambari server

#Pull code (pom.xml, view.xml, index.html)
cd
git clone https://github.com/hortonworks-gallery/ambari-blueprints-view.git
cd ambari-blueprints-view

#No longer needed - Tell maven to compile against ambari jar (double check that the jar exists in this location, first)
#mvn install:install-file -Dfile=/usr/lib/ambari-server/ambari-views-1.7.0.169.jar -DgroupId=org.apache.ambari -DartifactId=ambari-views -Dversion=1.3.0-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar

#Compile view
mvn clean package

#move jar to Ambari dir
cp target/*.jar /var/lib/ambari-server/resources/views
   

• Restart Ambari

#on HDP sandbox
service ambari restart

#on non-sandbox
service ambari-server restart

• Now open Ambari and navigate to the Views and select 'Blueprint View' http://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8080

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Run the sample operations

• First check your cluster parameters:

  • host/port (e.g. sandbox.hortonworks.com:8080). This is autodetected
  • cluster name (e.g. Sandbox). This is autodetected
  • Username/pass (e.g admin/admin)

• Export cluster blueprint:

  • Select "Full Cluster Blueprint" from the dropdown and click Submit. Notice the entire definition of the cluster is returned
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• Stop HBase (assuming its already started):

  • Select "Stop HBase" from the dropdown and click Submit. Notice "1 ops" started running
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• After a few seconds, check HBase status:

  • Select "HBase status" from the dropdown and click Submit. Notice state is now "INSTALLED" which means is not running
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• Start HBase (assuming its stopped):

  • Select "Start HBase" from the dropdown and click Submit. Notice "1 ops" started running
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• Check HBase status:

  • Select "HBase status" from the dropdown and click Submit. Notice that state is now "STARTED"
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• Notice that the status check APIs did not require a request body but the stop/start ones did

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Add your own operations

• You can add your own operations by modifying the url_list JSON data in /var/lib/ambari-server/resources/views/work/BLUEPRINT_VIEW{1.0.0}/index.html containing the sample operations, and refreshing the view. This will add your HTTP request to the dropdown list

  • Note the values of $host and $cluster will get replaced at runtime. Also the single quotes in the JSON body will be replaced by double quotes when displayed in the view

• You can also update the default values of hostname and cluster name in the same file, in case the autodetection is not working for some reason

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Update configurations

To update component configurations, see examples here