Introducing Cloudera Manager

Cloudera Manager is a web-browser-based administration tool to manage Apache Hadoop clusters. It is the centralized command center to operate the entire cluster from a single interface. Using Cloudera Manager, the administrator gets visibility for each and every component in the cluster.

A few of the important features of Cloudera Manager are listed as follows:

• It provides an easy-to-use web interface to install and upgrade CDH across the cluster.
• Each node in the cluster can be assigned roles and can be configured accordingly. It allows the starting and stopping of services across all nodes from a single web interface.
• It provides complete information for each node, for example, CPU, memory disk, and network statuses.

Cloudera Manager is available in the following two editions:

• Cloudera Manager Standard (free)
• Cloudera Manager Enterprise (licensed)

Cloudera Manager Standard Edition, though free, is a feature packed tool that can be used to deploy and manage Apache...