Specifying Environment Variables

Explains how to set environment variables on a client node.

About this task

A subset of the environment variables defined on the servers for the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster must be defined, with the same values, on the client. You can add environment variables directly to the startup script, or create a local env.sh file in /usr/local/mapr-loopbacknfs/conf. You cannot simply copy the env.sh file from a server node in the cluster because the MAPR_HOME setting would be different.

Complete the following steps to specify environment variables:

Procedure

  1. On a server node in the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster, locate the env.sh and env_override.sh files in the /opt/mapr/conf directory. If the env_override.sh file is not present, use the env.sh file. For more information about these files, see About env_override.sh.
  2. Retrieve the MAPR_SUBNETS and JAVA_HOME settings from the server files and clone them to /usr/local/mapr-loopbacknfs/conf/env.sh on the client node.
  3. (Optional) Set the NFS_LOOPBACK_HONOUR_SUBNETS environment variable to avoid re-registration whenever there is a change in any network interface. Value can be:
    • true to consider the MAPR_SUBNETS while registering with CLDB. If set to true, re-registration does not happen whenever there is a change in any network interface.
    • false to ignore the MAPR_SUBNETS. If set to false, re-registration happens whenever there is a change in any network interface.
    For example: 
    # export NFS_LOOPBACK_HONOUR_SUBNETS=true
# export MAPR_SUBNETS=10.10.104.0/24
                        
# env | grep SUBNET
NFS_LOOPBACK_HONOUR_SUBNETS=true
MAPR_SUBNETS=10.10.105.0/24,10.10.104.0/24
  4. Change the JAVA_HOME setting to point to the location where Java is installed on the client.
  5. Add the following lines to the client node env.sh file: 
    export MAPR_HOME=/usr/local/mapr-loopbacknfs 
export MAPR_TICKETFILE_LOCATION=/usr/local/mapr-loopbacknfs/initscripts/mapr-loopbacknfs/longlived_ticket
    NOTE To allow impersonation, set the value for MAPR_TICKETFILE_LOCATION to the path to the mapr user ticket.
  6. Save and close the env.sh file.
  7. Restart the loopbacknfs service for the changes to take effect.