Managing multiple clusters with Cloudera Manager

Organizations could have multiple teams and each team could have a dedicated cluster. Cloudera Manager provides a feature to manage multiple clusters efficiently. In this section, we will walk through the following steps to configure a second cluster running CDH:

1. Navigate to the Home page and click on the drop-down button in the Status section. Select Add Cluster as shown in the following screenshot:

   

2. You will be prompted to search for the nodes for the new cluster as shown in the following screenshot:

   

   For this demonstration, let's add node3.hcluster and node4.hcluster as hosts for the new cluster. Here I am using a pattern to search for node3.hcluster and node4.hcluster. Type in the pattern or enter the hostnames in the search box and click on the Search button.

3. Select the node3.hcluster and node4.hcluster hosts as shown in the following screenshot. Click on Continue.

   

4. Select the repository for the new cluster as shown in the following screenshot...