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HBase Administration Cookbook
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HBase Administration Cookbook

by Yifeng Jiang
August 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
332 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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Simple scripts to report the status of the cluster

Besides the health of the HBase-related daemons and their logs, what you might want to monitor is the overview of the current status of the cluster. This status basically includes:

  • The HBase hbck result showing whether the HBase tables are consistent
  • The Hadoop fsck result showing whether HDFS is healthy
  • The remaining HDFS space

In this recipe, we will create a check_hbase Nagios plugin to perform the task of monitoring. We will install our check_hbase plugin on the master node of the cluster, and remotely execute it with Nagios from the monitor server using the NRPE Nagios plugin.

Getting ready

We assume that you have installed and configured the Nagios NRPE plugin on your monitor and master server. ...

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