Add an HDFS connection
You can add a connection to the HDFS file system using ThoughtSpot DataFlow.
Follow these steps:
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Select Connections in the top navigation bar.
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In the Connections interface, select Add connection in the upper-right corner.
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In the Create Connection interface, select the Connection type.
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After you select the HDFS Connection type, the rest of the connection properties appear.
Depending on your choice of authentication mechanism, you may use different properties.
See Connection properties for details, defaults, and examples.
- Connection name
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Name your connection.
- Connection type
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Choose the HDFS connection type.
- User
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Specify the user to connect to HDFS file system.
This user must have data access privileges.
For Hive security with simple, LDAP, and SSL authentication only.
- Hadoop distribution
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Provide the distribution of Hadoop being connected to.
Mandatory field.
- Distribution version
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Provide the version of the Distribution you chose.
Mandatory field.
- Hadoop conf path
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By default, the system picks the Hadoop configuration files from the HDFS. To override, specify an alternate location. Applies only when using configuration settings that are different from global Hadoop instance settings.
- DFS HA configured
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Enables High Availability for HDFS.
Optional field.
- DFS name service
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The logical name of given to HDFS nameservice.
Mandatory field. For HDFS HA only.
- DFS name node IDs
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Provides the list of NameNode IDs separated by comma and DataNodes use this property to determine all the NameNodes in the cluster. XML property name is
dfs.ha.namenodes.dfs.nameservices. For HDFS HA only. - RPC address for namenode1
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To specify the fully-qualified RPC address for each listed NameNode and defined as
dfs.namenodes.rpc-address.dfs.nameservices.name_node_ID_1>. For HDFS HA only. - RPC address for namenode2
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To specify the fully-qualified RPC address for each listed NameNode and defined as
dfs.namenode.rpc-address.dfs.nameservices.name_node_ID_2. For HDFS HA only. - DFS host
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Specify the DFS hostname or the IP address.
Mandatory field. For when not using HDFS HA.
- DFS port
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Specify the associated DFS port.
Mandatory field. For when not using HDFS HA.
- Default HDFS location
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Specify the location for the default source/target location.
Mandatory field.
- Temp HDFS location
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Specify the location for creating temp directory.
Mandatory field.
- DFS security authentication
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Select the type of security being enabled.
Mandatory field.
- Hadoop RPC protection
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Hadoop cluster administrators control the quality of protection using the configuration parameter hadoop.rpc.protection.
Mandatory field. For DFS security authentication with Kerberos only.
- Hive principal
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Principal for authenticating hive services.
Mandatory field. For DFS security authentication with Kerberos only.
- User principal
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To authenticate via a key-tab you must have supporting key-tab file which is generated by Kerberos Admin and also requires the user principal associated with Key-tab (Configured while enabling Kerberos).
Mandatory field. For DFS security authentication with Kerberos only.
- User keytab
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To authenticate via a key-tab you must have supporting key-tab file which is generated by Kerberos Admin and also requires the user principal associated with Key-tab (Configured while enabling Kerberos).
Mandatory field. For DFS security authentication with Kerberos only.
- KDC host
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Specify KDC Host Name where as KDC (Kerberos Key Distribution Center) is a service that runs on a domain controller server role (Configured from Kerberos configuration-/etc/krb5.conf).
Mandatory field. For DFS security authentication with Kerberos only.
- Default realm
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A Kerberos realm is the domain over which a Kerberos authentication server has the authority to authenticate a user, host or service (Configured from Kerberos configuration-/etc/krb5.conf).
Mandatory field. For DFS security authentication with Kerberos only.
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Select Create connection.
