I believe there's some command to show list of datanodes from CLI, using parsing HTML is not a good idea. HTML page is intended to be read by human. I also don't know how to refresh node list;
Regards, *Stanley Shi,* On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Ashwin Shankar <ashwinshanka...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > Hadoop-1's name node UI displays dead datanodes > even if those instances are terminated and are not part of the cluster > anymore. > Is there a way to reset the dead datenode list without bouncing namenode ? > > This would help me in my script(which would run nightly) which parses the > html page,terminates > dead datanodes and resize the cluster. > -- > Thanks, > Ashwin > > >