By setting the Rack ID, you can enable Ambari to manage rack
information for hosts, including displaying the hosts in heatmaps by Rack ID, enabling
users to filter and find hosts on the Hosts page, using that Rack
ID. If HDFS is installed in your cluster, Ambari passes this Rack ID information to HDFS
using a topology script. Ambari generates a topology script at
/etc/hadoop/conf/topology.py and sets the
net.topology.script.file.name property in core-site automatically. This topology script
reads a mappings file /etc/hadoop/conf/topology_mappings.data that
Ambari automatically generates. When you make changes to Rack ID assignment using Ambari,
this mappings file will be updated when you push out the HDFS configuration. HDFS uses this
topology script to obtain Rack information about the DataNode hosts. You can set the Rack ID using Ambari Web in two ways.
- Make multiple hosts aware of a rack simultaneously, using
Actions.
- Make each host aware of a rack individually, using Host
Actions.
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To set the Rack ID for multiple hosts, from the Hosts page,
click Actions, then click Selected
Hosts, Filtered Hosts, or All
Hosts.
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Expand the menu, and click Hosts.
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Then, expand the menu and click Set Rack.
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Alteratively, for a specific host, from the Hosts page,
click .
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In Set Rack, type the rack name, then click
OK.
Browse to , and restart any services that display the Restart
Required icon.
