Apache Ambari Administration
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Install the Ambari Agents Manually

Use the instructions specific to the OS family running on your agent hosts.

RHEL/CentOS/Oracle Linux

Steps

  1. Install the Ambari Agent on every host in your cluster.

    yum install ambari-agent 
  2. Using a text editor, configure the Ambari Agent by editing the ambari-agent.ini file as shown in the following example:

    vi /etc/ambari-agent/conf/ambari-agent.ini
    [server]
    hostname=<your.ambari.server.hostname> 
    url_port=8440 
    secured_url_port=8441
  3. Start the agent on every host in your cluster.

    ambari-agent start 

    The agent registers with the Server on start.

SLES

Steps

  1. Install the Ambari Agent on every host in your cluster.

    zypper install ambari-agent 
  2. Configure the Ambari Agent by editing the ambari-agent.ini file as shown in the following example:

    vi /etc/ambari-agent/conf/ambari-agent.ini 
    [server] 
    hostname=<your.ambari.server.hostname> 
    url_port=8440 
    secured_url_port=8441
  3. Start the agent on every host in your cluster.

    ambari-agent start

    The agent registers with the Server on start.

Debian/Ubuntu

Steps

  1. Install the Ambari Agent on every host in your cluster.

    apt-get install ambari-agent
  2. Configure the Ambari Agent by editing the ambari-agent.ini file as shown in the following example:

    vi /etc/ambari-agent/conf/ambari-agent.ini
    [server]
    hostname=<your.ambari.server.hostname>
    url_port=8440
    secured_url_port=8441
  3. Start the agent on every host in your cluster.

    ambari-agent start

    The agent registers with the Server on start.