Any command to get active namenode for nameservice in hadoop?

Question

The command:

hdfs haadmin -getServiceState machine-98

Works only if you know the machine name. Is there any command like:

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Answer 1

You can do it in bash with hdfs cli calls, too. With the noted caveat that this takes a bit more time since it's a few calls to the API in succession, but this may be preferable to using a python script for some.

This was tested with Hadoop 2.6.0

get_active_nn(){
   ha_name=$1 #Needs the NameServiceID
   ha_ns_nodes=$(hdfs getconf -confKey dfs.ha.namenodes.${ha_name})
   active=""
   for node in $(echo ${ha_ns_nodes//,/ }); do
     state=$(hdfs haadmin -getServiceState $node)
     if [ "$state" == "active" ]; then
       active=$(hdfs getconf -confKey dfs.namenode.rpc-address.${ha_name}.${node})
       break
     fi
   done
   if [ -z "$active" ]; then
     >&2 echo "ERROR: no active namenode found for ${ha_name}"
     exit 1
   else
     echo $active
   fi
}