This page is a welcome message for the Ambari User Views Forums. We hope that you will find this a useful resource, as it is intended to be a place to post questions and share information. Please play nice. This introduction is designed to help you find your way around the forums and to hopefully get you started as quickly as possible.
Search First
Many of the questions that are posted in the forums have been posted many times before, and get the same answers each time. Before starting a new thread, please try searching the forums for an answer. The forums has been indexed by Google, so if you can’t find your answer with a forum search, it is worth typing it into Google too (e.g. Google for SITE:hortonworks.com/community/forums/forum/ambari-user-views/ widget). If you do find a topic that describes a problem similar to yours, read it by all means but do not post in that topic to ask for help.
Where To Post
If this is a general Ambari operations questions please post in the Ambari Forum (http://hortonworks.com/community/forums/forum/ambari/)
Multi posting is frowned upon. Duplicate postings will be closed or might be deleted. Posting your own topic is smiled upon.
Choose A Good Topic Title
When you start a new topic, try to use an appropriate title. “Ambari User View for Hive error when creating new SQL statement” is a good title. “URGENT HELP PLS!!!” is not a good title. A good title can be the difference between getting help and not.
If you have a question about a specific Ambari User View, then we suggest adding that user view into the topic.
Include as Much Information as Possible
Put down all the detail you can about your Hadoop Cluster, your version of Ambari and Ambari User Views and the problem you are having. If you are seeing errors, copy them word for word into your post. It’s best to include the full error than to summarize – sometimes wording is important. If you did something before you came across a problem, write down exactly what you did.
You can post links to screenshots to illustrate your issues, but don’t use screenshots in place of a website link. Forum volunteers need a link to the webpage with the issue, to see a working (or broken) example of it.