On-premise Installation

Prerequisites

Supported Operating Systems

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Versions 7.x

Supported Hadoop Distributions

• HDP - Versions 2.x
• HDP - Versions 3.x

Installation Procedure

1. Create Infoworks user if it does not already exist.

Note: Make sure a dedicated user is available for Infoworks replicator and the user is available in Kerberos database.

2. Create IWHOME directory: sudo mkdir /opt/infoworks
3. Change IW HOME directory permissions to Infoworks User:

sudo chown -R infoworks: /opt/infoworks

4. Switch to Infoworks user: sudo su - infoworks
5. Perform the following:

Download and Extract Installer

• Download the installer tar ball: wget https://infoworks-setup.s3.amazonaws.com/3.3/deploy_3.3.4.tar.gz
• Extract the installer: tar -xvf deploy_3.3.4.tar.gz
• Navigate to installer directory: cd iw-installer

Configure Installation

• Run the following command: ./configure_install.sh

Enter the details for each prompt:

• Hadoop distro name and installation path (If not auto-detected)
• Infoworks user
• Infoworks user group
• Infoworks installation path
• Infoworks HDFS home (path of home folder for Infoworks artifacts)
• Hive schema for Infoworks sample data
• IP address for accessing Infoworks UI (when in doubt use the FQDN of the Infoworks host)
• HiveServer2 thrift server hostname
• Hive user name
• Hive user password

Run Installation

• Install Infoworks: ./install.sh -v <version_number>

NOTE:

For HDP 2.x, RHEL7, replace <version_number> with 3.3.4-rhel7

For HDP 3.x, RHEL7, replace <version_number> with 3.3.4-hdp-rhel7

The installation logs are available in <path_to_Infoworks_home>/iw-installer/logs/installer.log.