Setting up Apache KNOX and accessing Hive and HDFS by the use of the KNOX in Linux and Browser.

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2. — https://knox.apache.org/
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3. There are two famous ways
to setup Apache Knox in
your server
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4. Ambari
Setup
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5. Ambari
Setup
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6. Ambari
Setup
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7. Ambari
Setup
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• Hit Next enter the Master Secret “Password for the Knox”
• Finish the Wizard by doing Next and Finish
• Can see the Knox in the service list in Ambari
• Restart the services in Ambari

8. Test HDFS using KNOX
• Use Command
• curl -i -k -u guest:guest-password -X GET
'https://<KnoxHostAddress>:<KnoxPort Default 8443>/gateway/<ClusterName
can find on the top left of Ambari Logo>/webhdfs/v1/?op=LISTSTATUS’
• This command will return the below

9. Test HDFS using KNOX
• Open in browser 'https://<KnoxHostAddress>:<KnoxPort Default
8443>/gateway/<ClusterName can find on the top left of Ambari
Logo>/webhdfs/v1/?op=LISTSTATUS
• User credentials “guest” , “guest-password”
• Output
{"FileStatuses":{"FileStatus":[]}}

10. Test Hive using KNOX
• Change the Hive config hive.server2.transport.mode to http from binary

11. Test Hive using KNOX
• beeline
• !connect
jdbc:hive2://hadoopmaster.com:8443/;ssl=true;sslTrustStore=/var/lib/knox/data-
2.6.1.0-
129/security/keystores/gateway.jks;trustStorePassword=password@123?hive.server2.t
ransport.mode=http;hive.server2.thrift.http.path=gateway/default/hive
• hadoopmaster.com is your system address
• 8443 is your port to knox

12. Test Hive using KNOX
• sslTrustStore change according to the Knox version
• trustStorePassword is the password used during setup
• Enter username guest
• Enter password guest-password
• (The above usename and password is from the Advance Topology file in config)
• Try “show databases;” and other query

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