Installing Cloudera Manager for the First Time
To install Cloudera Manager, you will:
- Install a database application on the Cloudera Manager Server host machine or on a host machine that the Cloudera Manager Server can access, and (depending on the configuration you decide on) on other hosts as well.
- Install the Cloudera Manager Server on one cluster host machine.
- Install CDH and the Cloudera Manager Agents on the other cluster host machines.
The following diagram illustrates a simple example of where each component is installed.

If you want to configure security for Cloudera Manager, see the following sections:
For overview and usage information, see the Managing Clusters with Cloudera Manager.