Ambari Agent Node OpenSSL / EOF / Failed to Connect Error

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I recently ran into an issue when deploying  Ambari Agent to a new host in my cluster. Here’s my personal Knowledge Base article on the issue.

Symptoms

When deploying Ambari Agent to a new node, the wizard fails. At the bottom of stderr I found the following :

 

INFO DataCleaner.py:122 - Data cleanup finished

INFO 11,947 hostname.py:67 - agent:hostname_script configuration not defined thus read hostname '<my host>' using socket.getfqdn().

INFO 11,952 PingPortListener.py:50 - Ping port listener started on port: 8670

INFO 11,954 main.py:439 - Connecting to Ambari server at https://<my host>:8440 (172.31.42.192)

INFO 955 NetUtil.py:70 - Connecting to https://<my host>:8440/ca

ERROR 11,958 NetUtil.py:96 - EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:579)

ERROR 11,958 NetUtil.py:97 - SSLError: Failed to connect. Please check openssl library versions.

Refer to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1022468 for more details.

WARNING 11,958 NetUtil.py:124 - Server at https://<my host>:8440 is not reachable, sleeping for 10 seconds...


 

Root Cause

After a solving the issue I can say the issue, in my case, was that there were previously installed versions of Java that conflicted with my preferred version even after selecting my version using the alternatives command.

Working through the issue I also found a suggestion to disable certificate validation that I implemented since this is not a production cluster, I am listing it as Solution 3 here.

Solution 1 – Deploy new hosts with no previous JDK

After much tinkering with the alternatives command to repair my JDK configuration I decided that it was easier to start with a new AWS set of nodes and ensure that no JDK was installed in my image before I began my prepping of each node. If you have nodes that are having the issue after an upgrade read Solution 2.

I am including the script I used to download and configure the correct JDK pre-requisite for my version of Ambari and HDP below for your consumption:

 

#!/bin/bash
#Script Name: ignacio_install_jdk.scr
#Author: Ignacio de la Torre
#Independent Contractor Profile: https://linkedin.com/in/idelatorre
#################
##Install Oracle JDK
export hm=/home/ec2-user
cd /usr
sudo mkdir -p jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112
cd jdk64
sudo wget http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/ARTIFACTS/jdk-8u112-linux-x64.tar.gz
sudo gunzip jdk-8u112-linux-x64.tar.gz
sudo tar -xf jdk-8u112-linux-x64.tar

#configure paths
chmod 666 $hm/.bash_profile
echo export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112 >>  $hm/.bash_profile
echo export PATH=$PATH:/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112/bin >>  $hm/.bash_profile
chmod 640 /root/.bash_profile

#configure java version using alternatives
sudo alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112/bin/java 1

#if the link to /usr/bin/java is broken (file displays red), rebuild using:
#ln -s -f /usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112/bin/java /usr/bin/java

 

Solution 2 – Install new JDK with utilities

I realize scrapping nodes is not an option, especially for those experiencing the issue after an install. Because of a tight deadline I did not try the solution displayed here but it addresses what I think the issue is.

 

Scenario: On my original nodes that had a previous non-compatible version of JDK installed I issued the following command to select my new JDK as preferred:

#Select Oracle's JDK 1.8 as preferred after install (see install script on Solution 1)
sudo alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112/bin/java 1

Issue: After selecting my new JDK I was able to see it listed in the configurations with the command below, BUT, all of the Java utilities such as jar, javadoc, etc. are pointing to null in my preferred JDK.

#list Java configured alternatives
sudo alternatives --display java

Proposed solution: Use the list of tools from the non-compatible version of JDK to install your new JDK with all the java utilities as slaves, please note that you cannot add slaves to an installed JDK, you need to issue the install command with all the utilities all at once. An example adding only JAR is displayed below:

#Select Oracle’s JDK 1.8 as preferred after install with a slave configuration for the JAR and javadoc utilities:

sudo alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112/bin/java" 1 \ 
--slave "/usr/bin/jar" "jar" "usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112/bin/jar" \
--slave "/usr/bin/javadoc" "javadoc" "usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112/bin/javadoc"

 

Solution 3 – Disable certificate validation

Like I said before, my cluster is not a production one and will not contain sensitive or confidential data so I opted to implement the suggestion to disable certificate validation as part of my troubleshooting. To do this you have to set verify=diable by editing the  /etc/python/cert-verification.cfg  file. Do this at your own risk.

 

 

Error deploying Hive using the Ambari agent (MySQL JAVA Connector JAR file missing)

Apache Hive is a data warehouse software project built on top of Apache Hadoop for providing data summarization, query and analysis.Hive gives an SQL-like interface to query data stored in various databases and file systems that integrate with Hadoop.

 

I recently ran into an issue when deploying Hive using Ambari. Here’s what my personal Knowledge Base article on the issue.

Symptoms

When deploying Hive and Hive Metastore to a new node, the “Hive Metastore Start” task fails. At the bottom of stderr I found the following message:

 

File "/usr/lib/ambari-agent/lib/resource_management/core/source.py", line 52, in __call__

    return self.get_content()

  File "/usr/lib/ambari-agent/lib/resource_management/core/source.py", line 197, in get_content

    raise Fail("Failed to download file from {0} due to HTTP error: {1}".format(self.url, str(ex)))

resource_management.core.exceptions.Fail: Failed to download file from http://<my_node_host>:8080/resources/ mysql-connector-java.jar due to HTTP error: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

 

Root Cause

I did deploy the Amari, HDP and HDP Utils repositories on a local mirror host. It seems as if the Ambari Agent assumes that the MySQL JAVA Connector JAR file would also be hosted by my local mirror.

This could also happen if the repositories configured during deployment no longer host the MySQL JAVA Connector JAR file.

Solution

Once I figured the root cause out it was easy to solve the issue by using YUM to manually install the MySQL JAVA Connector JAR file:

 

#On the Linux/Unix host(s) experiencing the install error, issue the following command:

sudo yum -y -q install mysql-connector-java

 

Hortonworks HDP / Ambari Install – Configure Open File Descriptors

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This is a very simple script I run in the target hosts that I am prepping for Apache Ambari Server or Agent and Hadoop deployment. The main thing it achieves is displaying the current settings for Linux Open File Descriptors, it then allows the user to specify whether they are below Ambari’s and/or Hadoop’s minimum system requirements, if that is the case the script will update the settings for you:

 

#!/bin/bash
#Script Name: ignacio_ofd.scr
#Author: Ignacio de la Torre
#Independent Contractor Profile: http://linkedin.com/in/idelatorre
#################
#Configure Maximum Open File Descriptors
echo ">>> Configure Maximum Open File Descriptors..."
echo "! ! ! Pay attention to the output below, if any of the two numbers displayed is less than 10,000, enter y at the prompt:"

ulimit -Sn
ulimit -Hn
echo "Enter y if the limits are below 10,000:"
read var_yesno
if [ "$var_yesno" = "y" ]
then
     echo "Updating /etc/security/limits.conf"
    #this updates the limits globally
    sudo chmod 666 /etc/security/limits.conf
    sudo echo "ubuntu    hard    nofile    10000" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
    sudo echo "ubuntu    soft    nofile    10000" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
    sudo echo "root    hard    nofile    100000" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
    sudo echo "root    soft    nofile    100000" >> /etc/security/limits.conf
    sudo chmod 644 /etc/security/limits.conf
else
    echo "ulimit not updated, not necessary"
fi

 

 

 

 

Hortonworks HDP / Ambari Install – Configure Network Time Protocol (NTP)

Apache Ambari aims at making Hadoop management simpler by developing software for provisioning, managing, and monitoring Apache Hadoop clusters. Ambari provides an intuitive, easy-to-use Hadoop management web UI backed by its RESTful APIs.

This is a small script I developed to configure NTP on my hosts before deploying the Ambari server or agent and Hadoop:

 

 

 

 

 

#!/bin/bash
#Script Name: ignacio_config_ntp.scr
#Author: Ignacio de la Torre
#Independent Contractor Profile: https://linkedin.com/in/idelatorre
#################
#configure ntp to auto-start at boot time
#Install NTP
sudo yum install -y -q ntp

#Disable autostart
sudo systemctl disable ntpd
sudo timedatectl set-ntp no

#configure NTP
sudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org
sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Los_Angeles

#re-enable NTP autostart
sudo systemctl enable ntpd
sudo timedatectl set-ntp on