Robin, You do get some of that but its not complete. If you look at the api for hosts:
api/v1/hosts/<hostname>?fields=*, you will see it tells you about packages intalled, files that are present. This might not be complete. Wnat to take a stab and fixing that? thanks mahadev On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Robin Carnow <[email protected]> wrote: > Mahadev, thanks again you for the help. > I have not looked at the Ambari code yet, but it would be nice to somehow > get a report from nodes which includes what packages are installed on each. > Then, in my case, I would be able to aggregate these node package reports to > see what is running on my cluster. I don't know how much of this is an edge > case, but it seems like a useful feature. > > ~Robin > > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Mahadev Konar <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi Robin, >> Currently the packages needed from epel are not documented. There has >> been a lot of use cases where folks want to just download the needed >> packages rather that all of epel but thats work in progress and not tested >> as of now. The easiest way to do it is to use a VM and install the required >> services you need. By doing a rpm -ql before and after the install you will >> know which packages are getting used. Hope that helps. >> >> thanks >> mahadev >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Robin Carnow <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Mahadev & Yusaku, >>> >>> Thanks you for your help, that is exactly what I needed for item #1. >>> >>> Does anyone know a simple way to find out what EPEL packages are >>> necessary if I know what my Hadoop deployment will consist of? >>> >>> I'm thinking of using Ambari to configuring nodes off site and somehow >>> recording what packages are needed to get the cluster up; then making those >>> packages available within our data center. Is there an easy way you know of >>> to do this? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for your help, >>> >>> ~Robin >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Yusaku Sako <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Also, here's the local repo set up documentation for Ambari 1.2.1: >>>> http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP1/HDP-1.2.1/bk_reference/content/reference_chap4.html >>>> >>>> We plan to add similar documentation in Ambari project website in the >>>> near future. >>>> >>>> Yusaku >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Mahadev Konar <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Robin, >>>>> You should probably use the 1.2.1 (that was just released). Here are >>>>> instructions to that: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://incubator.apache.org/ambari/1.2.1/installing-hadoop-using-ambari/content/ambari-chap1-6.html >>>>> >>>>> thanks >>>>> mahadev >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Robin Carnow <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I am using Amabari to deploy hadoop on a cluster which never has a >>>>>> connection to the Internet. From this link instructions are provided >>>>>> which >>>>>> describe how to get this working which use the tarball images listed >>>>>> below. >>>>>> After reading instructions of how to install Ambari 1.2.x, for some >>>>>> reason I >>>>>> get the impression that the tarballs below are not the correct repo >>>>>> versions >>>>>> for Ambari 1.2. >>>>>> >>>>>> From this 1.2 documentation page, there are no links to a similar >>>>>> description of how to "1. Set up the local mirror repositories as needed >>>>>> for >>>>>> HDP, HDP Utils and EPEL.". >>>>>> >>>>>> So I'm trying get help to: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1. Confirm that the below listed tarballs are the correct version for >>>>>> Ambari 1.2.x. >>>>>> >>>>>> 2. Find out how I'd be able to know what EPEL packages are necessary >>>>>> if I know what my hadoop deployment will consist of? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> RHEL/CentOS 5.x >>>>>> >>>>>> http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP-1.1.1.16/repos/centos5/ >>>>>> HDP-1.1.1.16-centos5.tar.gz >>>>>> >>>>>> http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.15/repos/ >>>>>> centos5/HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.15-centos5.tar.gz >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> RHEL/CentOS 6.x >>>>>> >>>>>> http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP-1.1.1.16/repos/centos6/ >>>>>> HDP-1.1.1.16-centos6.tar.gz >>>>>> >>>>>> http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.15/repos/ >>>>>> centos6/HDP-UTILS-1.1.0.15-centos6.tar.gz >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> ~Robin >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> >
