Oops, sorry -- brain fart :) Tobias is correct - JobClient exposes a fair amount of the information.
There are definitely *some* items that aren't exposed, but I can't seem to recall what they are, now. Apologies for the misinformation. -Todd On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Tobias Jungen <tobias.jun...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Correct me if I'm wrong but you should very much be able to get the > currently running jobs via the provided API. If you call > JobTracker.getAllJobs() you'll get an array of JobStatus objects, which > each > correspond to a job. You can then get the job progress via > JobStatus.mapProgress and JobStatus.reduceProgress. > > The one caveat is that you can't link into a running JobTracker, so you > only > have access to it if you launch it from your own code. However! You can > (and > should) use JobClient ( > > http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.19.1/api/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobClient.html > ) > instead to query information about jobs on your cluster. You can > instantiate > these objects with some basic configuration information, and then you will > have access to JobClient.getAllJobs much like the aforementioned > JobTracker.getAllJobs. > > -Toby > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > No, there is currently no public-facing API for tracking job status aside > > from parsing those JSPs (or adding your own) > > > > -Todd > > > > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:28 AM, pnd <prafulla.daw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi i am new to hadoop been using it for few weeks now, i tried few > > > map/reduce example and could see logs in jobtracker.jsp. > > > Is there any way to use jobtracker > > > api( > > > > > > http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.19.1/api/org/apache/hadoop/mapred/JobTracker.html > > > ) > > > for tracking the jobs instead using jobtracker jsp because I am trying > to > > > build new UI to show the job progress according to my requirements. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > -- > > > View this message in context: > > > > > > http://old.nabble.com/Using-jobtracker-api-for-developing-UI-in-hadoop-0.19.1-tp26266407p26266407.html > > > Sent from the Hadoop core-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > > > > > >
