This would be really great to see Jimmy! We would need to provide a sensible default webUI port to avoid conflicts upon upgrade. We should also make it a command-line parameter like we do now with the service port.
-Aleks S. On Sunday, February 3, 2013, Jimmy Xiang wrote: > The web UI came with Hadoop provides some useful information about each > server: for example, jmx, metrics, stacks, log level, conf, and so on. > > I was wondering should we add a web UI to REST and Thrift too, as we do for > master and region server. > > REST is a little different. It already hasa web server. In working on > HBASE-7738, I tried to add jmx/metrics servlet to the existing REST web > server. > We have to add several knobs to avoid path mapping conflicts between the > new servlets and the existing REST paths. I was wondering should we > use a separate web server on a different port for example 8085. For Thrift, > we can use 9095. That's default port, can be configured. > > The benefit to have another web server in REST is that we can get all > Hadoop http server features easily, and will never worry about path mapping > conflicts. The cons is that it needs another port. > > Thanks, > Jimmy > -- Best Regards, Aleks Shulman 847.814.5804 Cloudera