About Release 7.9.0
This site contains documentation for HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric release 7.9.0, including installation, configuration, administration, and reference content, as well as content for the associated ecosystem components and drivers.
7.9.0 Installation
This section contains information about installing and upgrading HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric software. It also contains information about how to migrate data and applications from an Apache Hadoop cluster to a HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster.
7.9.0 Data Fabric
HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric is the industry-leading data platform for AI and analytics that solves enterprise business needs.
7.9.0 Administration
This section describes how to manage the nodes and services that make up a cluster.
7.9.0 Development
This section contains information related to application development for Ezmeral ecosystem components and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric products, including the file system, Database (Key-Value and JSON), and Event Streams.
- Application Development Process
  Before you start developing applications on the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric platform, consider how you will get the data into the platform, the storage format of the data, the type of processing or modeling that is required, and how the data will be accessed.
- File Store and Apps
  The following sections provide information about accessing the File Store with C and Java applications.
- HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database and Apps
  This section contains information about developing client applications for JSON and key-value tables.
- Apache Kafka Wire Protocol Service
  HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams supports Apache Kafka Wire Protocol Service. Apache Kafka Wire Protocol Service is a TCP/IP service that emulates a Kafka cluster backed by HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams. The service makes it possible for Apache Kafka clients written in any programming language to access topics in HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams.
- HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams and Apps
  HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams brings integrated publish and subscribe messaging to HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.
- MapReduce and Apps
  This section contains information associated with developing YARN applications.
- Kubernetes Interfaces for Data Fabric
  This section describes how to leverage the capabilities of the Kubernetes Interfaces for Data Fabric.
- Ecosystem Components
  The following sections provide information about each open-source project that is supported by the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.
  - Ecosystem Packs
  - Apache Airflow
    This topic provides an overview of Apache Airflow on HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.
  - AsyncHBase
  - Cascading
  - Apache Drill
    - Drill Tutorial
    - Drill-on-YARN
    - Configuring Drill
      Lists the data-fabric-specific configuration for Drill.
    - Working with Drill
    - Securing Drill
      An administrator can install Drill with the default security configuration or manually configure custom security for Drill.
      - Roles and Privileges
        Drill has USER and ADMIN roles. Each role can perform different functions in Drill.
      - Drill Default Security
        The default security configuration uses MapR-SASL (tickets) for authentication, authorization, and encryption to automatically secure the cluster and ecosystem components when you install them manually or using the Installer.
      - User Impersonation
        Impersonation allows a service to act on behalf of a client while performing the action requested by the client. By default, user impersonation is disabled in Drill. You can configure user impersonation in the /opt/mapr/drill/drill-<version>/drill-override.conf file.
      - Default Security (Tickets)
        Drill supports authentication and encryption through the Default (tickets) security mechanism. Authentication is the process of establishing confidence of authenticity. Encryption is the process of converting information or data from plain text into ciphertext to prevent unauthorized access. An administrator can manually configure Drill to use Default Security. When Default Security is enabled, all Drill clients, such as JDBC and ODBC, must connect to Drillbits through Default Security.
      - Kerberos
        Drill supports Kerberos v5 network security authentication and encryption. Kerberos is a network authentication protocol built on symmetric-key cryptography. Kerberos eliminates the need to store passwords locally or send them over the network and reduces the risk of impersonation.
      - Plain Authentication
        An administrator can configure Drill to use the Linux pluggable authentication module (PAM) for Plain (username and password) authentication. PAM provides an authentication module that interfaces with any installed PAM authentication entity, such as the local operating system password file (/etc/passwd) or LDAP.
      - SSL/TLS for Encryption
        You can enable SSL for Drill in a secure cluster. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), more recently called TLS, is a security mechanism that encrypts data passed between the Drill client and Drillbit (server). SSL also provides one-way authentication through which the Drill client verifies the identity of the Drillbit.
      - Security Between ZooKeeper and Drillbits
        When Drill is installed on clusters with the default security enabled, authentication is enabled between the Drillbits and ZooKeeper. The ZooKeeper znode information is secured automatically through authentication and znode ACLs. Communication between the Drillbits and Zookeeper is not encrypted.
      - Configuring Drill Web UI and Web API Security
        The Drill web client and web API communicate with web browsers or web tools, like curl, through the HTTP or HTTPS. Drill uses HTTP by default.
        Setting up Web UI Administrators and Administrator-User Groups
        The security.admin.user_groups and security.admin.users options set the administrative users when authentication is enabled.
        Drill REST API and Web UI
        This topic provides information about the Drill REST API and Web UI, including permission requirements.
      - SPNEGO for HTTP Authentication
        Drill 1.13 and later supports the Simple and Protected GSS-API Negotiation mechanism (SPNEGO) to extend the Kerberos-based single sign-on authentication mechanism to HTTP. An administrator configures the web server (Drillbit) to use SPNEGO for authentication. Depending on the system, either the administrator or the user configures the client (web browser or web client tool) to use SPNEGO for authentication.
      - Using ACEs on Views to Limit Data Access
        Describes how to use access control expressions to limit data access for Views.
    - Data Fabric Drill Drivers
      HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric provides Drill ODBC and JDBC drivers that you can download and use to connect Drill to BI tools. The drivers are updated periodically to include support for new functionality in Drill.
    - Drill Configuration Files
      The Drill installation includes configuration files with start-up options that you can modify prior to starting Drill.
    - Mask Sensitive Data in Query Logs and Profiles
      Starting in Drill 1.20.2 (EEP 9.0.0 installed on Core 7.1.0), you can define a set of rules in a JSON file to mask sensitive data in Drill query logs and query profiles.
    - Monitoring Drill Metrics
    - Optimizing Queries with Indexes
      HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database provides a highly scalable key-value database platform on which you can run SQL queries using Drill. As a part of the 6.0 release, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database natively supports indexes on secondary fields in JSON tables.
    - Drill Limitations
      Provides information about Drill limitations and solutions where applicable.
    - Vulnerability Reports
      Provides vulnerability information in relation to Drill.
  - Hadoop
  - HBase
  - HBase Client and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database Binary Tables
  - HCatalog
  - Hive
  - HttpFS
  - Hue
  - Livy
    Apache Livy is primarily used to provide integration between Hue and Spark.
  - HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams Clients and Tools
    Describes the supported HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams tools and clients.
  - NiFi
    This topic provides an overview of Apache NiFi on HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.
  - OTel
    This topic provides an overview of OpenTelemetry on HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.
  - Ranger
  - Apache Spark
  - YARN
  - Zeppelin
- Maven and the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric
  This section discusses topics associated with Maven and the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric.
- Developer's Reference
  This section contains in-depth information for the developer.
- API Documentation
  HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric supports public APIs for file system, HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Database, and HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Streams. These APIs are available for application-development purposes.
Other Docs
This section contains release-independent information, including: Installer documentation, Ecosystem release notes, interoperability matrices, security vulnerabilities, and links to other data-fabric version documentation.
Glossary
Definitions for commonly used terms in MapR Converged Data Platform environments.

Setting up Web UI Administrators and Administrator-User Groups

The security.admin.user_groups and security.admin.users options set the administrative users when authentication is enabled.

Users listed in security.admin.users and the users belonging to the groups listed in security.admin.user_groups get administrative privileges. By default, these options are set to the username and groups of the user who started the Drill process. You can modify these options from the Drill Web UI or using the ALTER SYSTEM command.

An administrative user that authenticates to a Drillbit through data-fabric-SASL, Kerberos, Plain mechanism or through the HTTPS web interface can modify the security.admin.user_groups and security.admin.users options. The administrator can add or remove user names or user groups.

The security.admin.user_groups and security.admin.users options allow a single user/group name or a comma separated list of user/group names. When you view these options in the Drill Web UI, dummy default strings appear until the user explicitly changes the values.

Authenticated administrative users can view the current administrative user and administrative user groups on the Drill Web UI landing page (https://<node-ip-address>:8047) in the Encryption Info section.

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HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric – Customer-Managed 7.9.0 Documentation
Abstract	This site contains documentation for the customer-managed platform of the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric version 7.9.0 including installation, configuration, administration, and reference content, as well as content for the associated bundled ecosystem components and drivers.
Published	November 2024
Edition	7.9.0