Hi Ted, The host and port is the Zookeeper host and port. If you run drill in distributed mode, you will have to have zookeeper running. Drill uses zookeeper to store configuration data.
Go on and download and install zookeeper. Then run it: "bin/zkServer start". It will run on default on port 2181. Next run: "bin/drillbit.sh start". Once you drillbit runs, go to your webbrowser and go to "http://localhost:8047/"; 8047 is the default port for drill. Once there go to "storage" and configure the plugins, which allow you to define hosts, ports and formats. The drill documentation helps you a lot with definitions and examples. Rgds, Uwe -----Original Message----- From: Ted Schwartz [mailto:tschwa...@loomissayles.com] Sent: Montag, 22. Februar 2016 17:41 To: drill-u...@incubator.apache.org Subject: what am I missing? I'm new to drill and trying to get up and running. My goal is to access drill from a JDBC client. I'm a bit confused when starting drill. If I use drill-embedded, it appears it only allows one connection and that connection is started along with drill. So if instead I try to run in distributed mode, I have modified drill-override.conf like this: drill.exec: { cluster-id: "drillbits1", zk.connect: "myhost:2181" } and start drillbit(?) with this: drillbit.sh start I get a "starting drillbit..." message, but cannot connect in any way to it. If I try to connect using sqlline, it fails with "Connection timed out": sqlline -u jdbc:drill:zk=myhost:2181 Same problems if I try to connect using the drill-conf utility (which appears to be nothing other than an invocation of sqlline) No matter how I start drill, it doesn't appear any ports are opened for the process. For example, `netstat -a | grep 2181` doesn't yield any results, and the http port 8047 that works when I start in embedded mode doesn't work in distributed mode. I feel like I am missing something fundamental to all of this, although I'm trying to follow the Getting Started documentation. I've seen references to "making sure you start Zookeeper". How do I do that? I find lots of details about starting drillbit, but nothing about starting Zookeeper. Thanks in advance for any clue that can help me move forward.
