WebHCat Configuration

Configuration Files

The configuration for WebHCat (Templeton) merges the normal Hadoop configuration with the WebHCat-specific variables. Because WebHCat is designed to connect services that are not normally connected, the configuration is more complex than might be desirable.

The WebHCat-specific configuration is split into two layers:

webhcat-default.xml – All the configuration variables that WebHCat needs. This file sets the defaults that ship with WebHCat and should only be changed by WebHCat developers. Do not copy this file or change it to maintain local installation settings. Because webhcat-default.xml is present in the WebHCat war file, editing a local copy of it will not change the configuration.
webhcat-site.xml – The (possibly empty) configuration file in which the system administrator can set variables for their Hadoop cluster. Create this file and maintain entries in it for configuration variables that require you to override default values based on your local installation.
Note

The WebHCat server will require restart after any change to the configuration.

The configuration files are loaded in this order with later files overriding earlier ones:

To find the configuration files, WebHCat first attempts to load a file from the CLASSPATH and then looks in the directory specified in the TEMPLETON_HOME environment variable.

Configuration files may access the special environment variable env for all environment variables. For example, the Pig executable could be specified using:

${env.PIG_HOME}/bin/pig

Configuration variables that use a filesystem path try to have reasonable defaults. However, it's always safe to specify the full and complete path if there is any uncertainty.

Log File Location

The webhcat-log4j.properties file sets the location of the log files created by WebHCat and some other properties of the logging system.

Configuration Variables

Name	Description
templeton.port	The HTTP port for the main server.
templeton.hadoop.config.dir	The path to the Hadoop configuration.
Obsolete: templeton.jar	The path to the WebHCat jar file. (Not used in recent releases, so removed in Hive 0.14.0.)
templeton.libjars	Jars to add to the classpath.
templeton.override.jars	Jars to add to the `HADOOP_CLASSPATH` for all Map Reduce jobs. These jars must exist on HDFS.
templeton.override.enabled	Enable the override path in templeton.override.jars.
templeton.streaming.jar	The HDFS path to the Hadoop streaming jar file.
templeton.hadoop	The path to the Hadoop executable.
templeton.pig.archive	The path to the Pig archive.
templeton.pig.path	The path to the Pig executable.
templeton.hcat	The path to the HCatalog executable.
templeton.hive.archive	The path to the Hive archive.
templeton.hive.path	The path to the Hive executable.
templeton.hive.properties	Properties to set when running Hive (during job submission). This is expected to be a comma-separated prop=value list. If some value is itself a comma-separated list, the escape character is '\' </description> (from Hive 0.13.1 onward). To use it in a cluster with Kerberos security enabled, set `hive.metastore.sasl.enabled=false` and add `hive.metastore.execute.setugi=true`. Using localhost in metastore URI does not work with Kerberos security.
templeton.exec.encoding	The encoding of the stdout and stderr data.
templeton.exec.timeout	How long in milliseconds a program is allowed to run on the WebHCat box.
templeton.exec.max-procs	The maximum number of processes allowed to run at once.
templeton.exec.max-output-bytes	The maximum number of bytes from stdout or stderr stored in ram.
templeton.controller.mr.child.opts	Java options to be passed to WebHCat controller map task.
templeton.exec.envs	The environment variables passed through to exec.
templeton.zookeeper.hosts	ZooKeeper servers, as comma-separated host:port pairs.
templeton.zookeeper.session-timeout	ZooKeeper session timeout in milliseconds.
templeton.callback.retry.interval	How long to wait between callback retry attempts in milliseconds.
templeton.callback.retry.attempts	How many times to retry the callback.
templeton.storage.class	The class to use as storage.
templeton.storage.root	The path to the directory to use for storage.
templeton.hdfs.cleanup.interval	The maximum delay between a thread's cleanup checks.
templeton.hdfs.cleanup.maxage	The maximum age of a WebHCat job.
templeton.zookeeper.cleanup.interval	The maximum delay between a thread's cleanup checks.
templeton.zookeeper.cleanup.maxage	The maximum age of a WebHCat job.
templeton.kerberos.secret	The secret used to sign the HTTP cookie value. The default value is a random value. Unless multiple WebHCat instances need to share the secret the random value is adequate.
templeton.kerberos.principal	The Kerberos principal to used by the server. As stated by the Kerberos SPNEGO specification, it should be `USER/${HOSTNAME}@{REALM`}. It does not have a default value.
templeton.kerberos.keytab	The keytab file containing the credentials for the Kerberos principal.
templeton.hadoop.queue.name	MapReduce queue name where WebHCat map-only jobs will be submitted to. Can be used to avoid a deadlock where all map slots in the cluster are taken over by Templeton launcher tasks. Versions: Hive 0.12.0 and later.
templeton.mapper.memory.mb	WebHCat controller job's Launch mapper's memory limit in megabytes. When submitting a controller job, WebHCat will overwrite `mapreduce.map.memory.mb` with this value. If empty, WebHCat will not set `mapreduce.map.memory.mb` when submitting the controller job, therefore the configuration in mapred-site.xml will be used. Versions: Hive 0.14.0 and later.
templeton.frame.options.filter	Adds web server protection from clickjacking using X-Frame-Options header. The possible values are DENY, SAMEORIGIN, ALLOW-FROM <uri>. Versions: Hive 3.0.0 and later.

Default Values

Some of the default values for WebHCat configuration variables depend on the release number. For the default values in the Hive release you are using, see the webhcat-default.xml file. It can be found in the SVN repository at: