MapR Installer FAQ

Review frequently asked questions about the MapR Installer.

General

What is the difference between the MapR Installer and the Quick Installer?

The MapR Installer is a robust, user-friendly replacement for the Quick Installer. You can use the MapR Installer to install a cluster with MapR services and ecosystem components. You can also use the MapR Installer to update an existing cluster with additional nodes, MapR services, and ecosystem components. However, the MapR Installer does not install the MapR client.

Which versions of MapR software can I install?

You can use the MapR Installer to install releases 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2.x, and 6.x.

Can I use the MapR Installer to upgrade my cluster?

Yes. The MapR Installer can be used to upgrade a cluster that was installed using the MapR Installer or an Installer Stanza. See Upgrading MapR Core With the MapR Installer for information about how to upgrade with the MapR Installer.

If the cluster was manually installed, you can install the Installer and enable it to be used with subsequent installations or upgrades by following the steps in Using probe and import to Generate the Installer Database.

Can I use the MapR Installer to install a patch?

Yes. See Applying a Patch.

Does the MapR Installer support adding a "compute-only" node?

A compute-only node is a node that is capable of performing computational tasks but is not expected to perform long-term data storage. The MapR Installer does not explicitly support adding a compute-only node to a MapR cluster. However, you can effectively work around the issue by adding a node that has the MapR File System and sufficient associated disk space. The disk space must be equal to or greater than the amount of physical memory on the node.

Preparing to Install

What are the MapR Installer requirements?

See the Prerequisites.

What information should I have before I start?

The mapr-setup.sh script requests the following information:

The fully-qualified domain name for each host and the port number that other nodes in the cluster can use to connect to the MapR Installer node.
A user for the cluster admin user account. If the user account doesn't exist, the mapr-setup.sh script prompts for the UID, GID, group name, and password so that it can create the account.

The MapR Installer requests the following information:

The EEP that you want to install on a 5.2.x or later cluster
The MapR services that you want to install on the cluster
Hostnames of the nodes that you want to include in the cluster (specify fully-qualified domain names as described in Connectivity)
Credentials for the root user or a user with sudo privileges on each node in the cluster

What are the node requirements?

See the Prerequisites.

What are my options if I don't want to use an Internet repository?

See Using a Local, Shared Repository With the Installer.

Using the MapR Installer

Which license edition applies to my installation?

As of release 5.1, MapR licenses are categorized by new editions and modules that further define the features supported by an edition.

See the following table for descriptions of the license options. For more information about licensing, see HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Software Licensing.

License Edition	Description
Community Edition	An unlimited, free, community-supported MapR edition with one free NFS Gateway. This edition includes Hadoop, MapR Database, and MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka. However, real-time global replication of MapR Database tables orMapR Event Store For Apache Kafka is not included.
Enterprise Edition	MapR Edition that enables enterprise-class features such as high availability, multi-tenancy, and disaster recovery. Each of the following modules for the Enterprise Edition unlocks a portion of the total platform capabilities: Analytics Enables enterprise-class features for analytic use cases, such as highly-available NFS and support for services like YARN and MapReduce. Database Enables enterprise-class features for operational NoSQL database, with MapR Database JSON and binary tables, and real-time global database replication. Streams Enables enterprise-class features for publish/subscribe event streaming, with MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka and real-time global stream replication. For more information about MapR editions, see What's Included.

License Edition

Description

Community Edition

An unlimited, free, community-supported MapR edition with one free NFS Gateway. This edition includes Hadoop, MapR Database, and MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka. However, real-time global replication of MapR Database tables orMapR Event Store For Apache Kafka is not included.

Enterprise Edition

MapR Edition that enables enterprise-class features such as high availability, multi-tenancy, and disaster recovery. Each of the following modules for the Enterprise Edition unlocks a portion of the total platform capabilities:

Analytics: Enables enterprise-class features for analytic use cases, such as highly-available NFS and support for services like YARN and MapReduce.
Database: Enables enterprise-class features for operational NoSQL database, with MapR Database JSON and binary tables, and real-time global database replication.
Streams: Enables enterprise-class features for publish/subscribe event streaming, with MapR Event Store For Apache Kafka and real-time global stream replication.

For more information about MapR editions, see What's Included.

What happened to the M3, M5, M7, or Enterprise Edition licenses?

With the release of 5.1 and MapR Streams, the licensing model has been simplified, allowing more choice in which specific features are licensed on a cluster.

See the following table to understand how the new MapR licenses correspond to the legacy license editions that you are familiar with. For more information about licensing, see HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Software Licensing. For more information about MapR editions, see What's Included.

Legacy Edition	New Edition & Module(s)
M3 or Community Edition	Community Edition. Starting in 5.1, the Converged Community Edition includes MapR Streams.
M5 or Enterprise Edition	Enterprise Edition with Hadoop Module
M7 or Enterprise Database Edition	Enterprise Edition with Hadoop and Database modules

What expressions can I use to specify multiple nodes?

You can enter the following types of expressions to specify nodes:

[0-99] => Expands hostnames to 0, 1, 2, ...99. The second delimiter allows one or more digits.

[00-99] => Expands hostnames to 00,01,02,...99. Allows two or more digits of the same length

[a-z] or [A-Z] => Expands hostnames to a,b,c,...z or A,B,C,...Z

To group hosts based on racks for performance or reliability, append ":" followed by the rack name to each expression.

Examples:

host1, host2, host3
host[A-Z][0-99] => hostA0, hostA1, hostA2 ,...hostZ99
host[000-333] => host000, host001, host002, ... host333
host[0-3],otherhost[00-05] => host0, host1, host2,...host3 and otherhost00,...otherhost05
host[0-5]:rack1,host[6-10]:rack2 => host1, host2, host3,...host5 on rack1. host6, host7, host8,...host10 on rack2

How do I change the service layout?

The MapR Installer uses groups to organize nodes and services. A group is a set of services that you can run on one or more nodes. A service can only be assigned to one group.

On the Configure Service Layout page, you can use the Advanced Configuration option to drag and drop services between existing groups to specify where the services are to be installed. You can also create new groups or change the list of nodes assigned to a group.

NOTE Some services can only be assigned to one node.

Can I install a single-master service, such as Hive, on multiple nodes?

When you use the MapR Installer, single-master services are added to the default MASTER group. By design, only one node can be assigned to the MASTER group.

To install a single-master service on more than one node:

On the Configure Service Layout page, create a new group.
Assign multiple nodes to the new group.
Drag the single-master service to the new group.

Can I install a secure MapR cluster with the MapR Installer?

Yes. MapR Installer versions 1.10 and later support security by default.

Are there limitations to what you can do when you update an existing cluster?

See the restrictions documented in Using the Incremental Install Function.

How do I uninstall the MapR Installer?

See Uninstalling Software Using the MapR Installer Uninstall Button. If the installer node is part of the cluster, the MapR Installer packages can remain on the installer node after the cluster is uninstalled.

If you have uninstalled the cluster, you can also run one of the following commands to uninstall the MapR Installer packages from the installer node:

On CentOS / Red Hat:
```
yum remove 'mapr-installer*'
```

On Ubuntu:
```
apt-get remove 'mapr-installer*'
```

On SLES
```
zypper remove 'mapr-installer*'
```

Troubleshooting

What can I do if I need to rerun mapr-setup.sh with a new repository URL and the script still points to the old URL?

The /opt/mapr/installer/data/properties.json file stores information such as the user ID of the cluster administrator, the user ID of the MapR Installer, the OS type, Internet access information, and the repository URLs for MapR Core and the ecosystem components. Once a repository URL has been stored in properties.json, the MapR Installer assumes that the URL will not change. Rerunning the setup script does not update the URL. Even upgrading the installer packages does not update the repository URL in properties.json. To pass a new repository value into properties.json, you have two options:

Option 1

You can remove the installer files and rerun the setup script:

mapr-setup.sh remove

Using the remove command removes properties.json, the installer database, and the installer packages, but not the setup script. After the files are removed, you can rerun the setup script to specify the new repository URL. For more information about options you can use with mapr-setup.sh, see Using mapr-setup.sh.

Option 2

If you need to retain the installer database and the cluster state information (for example, because you need to do an upgrade), you can:

Edit the properties.json file manually to change the repo_core_url and the repo_eco_url entries to the correct values.
Restart the MapR Installer:
```
systemctl restart mapr-installer
```

What can I do if drop-down menus aren't working?

Try any or all of the following to correct the problem:

Refresh the browser page.
Clear the browser cache.
Close and restart the browser or browser tab.

Why does the Installer URL not work?: Check that the URL you are trying to access is external. For example, if you install on a cluster that is in the cloud, the URL that the MapR Installer lists may not work if it is an internal URL. Try accessing the external URL that is associated with the internal URL.
Why doesn't the MapR Installer list the ecosystem component that I want to install?: The MapR Installer Definitions package contains the MapR versions and services that you can install. Once you update the MapR Installer Definitions, you can install ecosystem components that were made available after you first configured the MapR Installer. See Updating the MapR Installer.
On the Verify Nodes page, how can I get more information about a warning or error?: Hold your cursor over the warning or error in the right pane to see more information about the specific warning or error condition.
Why are the nodes listed on the Verify Nodes page different from those that I chose to install on?: If you abort an installation and then install on a different set of nodes, you must use the Verify Nodes page to manually remove nodes that were part of the aborted installation but are no longer part of the current installation.
I can't log in to Hue. What credentials should I use to log into Hue for the first time?: Log in with the cluster administrator username that you configured while running mapr-setup.sh and the password mapr.
What should I do if rerunning mapr-setup.sh generates errors because the properties.json file has incorrect information?: See Troubleshooting Repository URL Errors.