[jira] [Created] (AMBARI-646) Design & Implement A UI Flow For Rack Information

["Varun Kapoor (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Varun Kapoor created AMBARI-646:
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             Summary: Design & Implement A UI Flow For Rack Information
                 Key: AMBARI-646
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-646
             Project: Ambari
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 1.0
            Reporter: Varun Kapoor
             Fix For: 1.0


Once https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-645 is done (or even while it's being worked on, really), we need to decide upon a first cut flow in the Ambari UI to get rack information (from the user) about the hosts in the cluster.

A first proposal that emanated from a 5-minute brainstorming session between Hitesh, Arun and I was to enhance the format of the hosts file (that is uploaded) to take in optional rack information about each host - something in the form of:

{code}
/<rack>/<host>/
.
.
.
/<rack>/<host>/
{code}

This allows for leaving the <rack> field blank, if that information is not known, by just making an entry of the form:

{code}
//<host>/
{code}

Alternately, we could consider deducing when there is rack information in a host entry, by looking for '/' - if it's not present, we assume the entry is simply of the form:

{code}
<host>
{code}

just like it is today.

Another preference I have that the implementer might want to consider is to use a sectioned INI file format, like so:

{code}
[<rack>]
<host>
.
.
.
<host>

[<rack>]
<host>
.
.
.
<host>
{code}

Note that this just addresses getting in the rack info via the UI and storing it in the Ambari DB - there's more work to be done (likely in a separate JIRA, to be opened by whomever knows enough about it to actually put in a meaningful description) in propagating this rack info to all the Hadoop components via the Puppet layer.

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