Other Cloudera Manager Settings
From the
tab you can select options for configuring settings that affect how Cloudera Manager interacts with your cluster.The Administration Settings Page
The Settings page provides a number of categories as follows:
- Performance: Set the Cloudera Manager Agent heartbeat here.
- Advanced: Enable API debugging and other advanced options.
- Thresholds: Set Agent Health status parameters. For configuration instructions, see Configuring Agent Heartbeat and Health Status Options.
- Security: Set TLS encryption settings to enable TLS encryption between the Cloudera Manager Server, Agents, and clients. For configuration instructions, see Configuring TLS Security for Cloudera Manager You can also:
- Set the realm for Kerberos security and point to a custom keytab retrieval script. For configuration instructions, see Configuring Hadoop Security with Cloudera Manager
- Specify session timeout and a "Remember Me" option.
- Ports and Addresses: Set ports for the Cloudera Manager Admin Console and Server. For configuration instructions, see Configuring the Ports for the Admin Console and Agents.
- Other: To enable Cloudera usage data collection For configuration instructions, see Configuring Anonymous Usage Data Collection. You can also:
- Set a custom header color and banner text for the Admin console.
- Set an "Information Assurance Policy" statement – this statement will be presented to every user before they are allowed to access the login dialog. The user must click "I Agree" in order to proceed to the login dialog.
- Disable/enable the auto-search for the Events panel at the bottom of a page.
- Support: Enable access to online Help files from the Cloudera web site rather than from locally-installed files. (see Opening the Help Files from the Cloudera Web Site), and enable automatic sending of diagnostic data to Cloudera when you trigger a data collection (see [Sending Diagnostic Data to Cloudera
- External Authentication: Specify the configuration to use LDAP, Active Directory, or an external program for authentication. See Configuring External Authentication for instructions.
Opening the Help Files from the Cloudera Web Site
By default, when you click the Help link in Cloudera Manager, the locally-installed Help files are opened. These local Help files are not updated after installation. You can configure Cloudera Manager to open the latest Help files from the Cloudera web site (this option requires Internet access from the browser).
To configure Cloudera Manager open the Help files from the Cloudera web site:
- From the Administration tab, select Settings.
- Under the Enterprise Support category, enable the Open latest Help files from the Cloudera website.
- Click Save Changes.
User Interface Language Settings
You can change the language of the Cloudera Manager Admin Console User Interface through the language preference in your browser. Information on how to do this for the browsers supported by Cloudera Manager is shown under the Administration > Language page. You can also change the language for the information provided with activity and health events, and for alert email messages.
To change the language of the activity and health event information and alert email messages, select the language you want from the drop-down list on this page, the click Save Changes.