[jira] [Created] (AMBARI-8225) Configuration Monitor - Ability to indicate if the configurations have been changed manually outside Ambari

["Newton Alex (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Newton Alex created AMBARI-8225:
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             Summary: Configuration Monitor - Ability to indicate if the configurations have been changed manually outside Ambari
                 Key: AMBARI-8225
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-8225
             Project: Ambari
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Newton Alex
            Assignee: Newton Alex
             Fix For: 2.0.0


Users who are familiar with Hadoop configurations (or any other service) tend to change the configuration files directly on the cluster nodes without using Ambari. It is quicker and convenient for them to just directly change the files and restart the service on a particular node rather than going through Ambari.  The downside of this is that Ambari doesn’t recognize these changes and overwrites them during cluster upgrades or while reconfiguring services. 
Ambari should not be preventing the users from making changes themselves, as it would be too restrictive. On the other hand, it would greatly benefit Ambari, if it is aware of the manual configuration changes on the nodes as it can then alert the users of the changes before doing any of its own.




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