The command:
hdfs haadmin -getServiceState machine-98
Works only if you know the machine name. Is there any command like:
hdfs haadmin -getServiceState <nameservice>
which can tell you the IP/hostname of the active namenode?
To print out the namenodes use this command:
hdfs getconf -namenodes
To print out the secondary namenodes:
hdfs getconf -secondaryNameNodes
To print out the backup namenodes:
hdfs getconf -backupNodes
Note: These commands were tested using Hadoop 2.4.0.
Update 10-31-2014:
Here is a python script that will read the NameNodes involved in Hadoop HA from the config file and determine which of them is active by using the hdfs haadmin command. This script is not fully tested as I do not have HA configured. Only tested the parsing using a sample file based on the Hadoop HA Documentation. Feel free to use and modify as needed.
#!/usr/bin/env python
# coding: UTF-8
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
import subprocess as SP
if __name__ == "__main__":
hdfsSiteConfigFile = "/etc/hadoop/conf/hdfs-site.xml"
tree = ET.parse(hdfsSiteConfigFile)
root = tree.getroot()
hasHadoopHAElement = False
activeNameNode = None
for property in root:
if "dfs.ha.namenodes" in property.find("name").text:
hasHadoopHAElement = True
nameserviceId = property.find("name").text[len("dfs.ha.namenodes")+1:]
nameNodes = property.find("value").text.split(",")
for node in nameNodes:
#get the namenode machine address then check if it is active node
for n in root:
prefix = "dfs.namenode.rpc-address." + nameserviceId + "."
elementText = n.find("name").text
if prefix in elementText:
nodeAddress = n.find("value").text.split(":")[0]
args = ["hdfs haadmin -getServiceState " + node]
p = SP.Popen(args, shell=True, stdout=SP.PIPE, stderr=SP.PIPE)
for line in p.stdout.readlines():
if "active" in line.lower():
print "Active NameNode: " + node
break;
for err in p.stderr.readlines():
print "Error executing Hadoop HA command: ",err
break
if not hasHadoopHAElement:
print "Hadoop High-Availability configuration not found!"