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Published inMay 2017
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ISBN-139781787126732
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Aman Singh
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Gurmukh Singh is a seasoned technology professional with 14+ years of industry experience in infrastructure design, distributed systems, performance optimization, and networks. He has worked in big data domain for the last 5 years and provides consultancy and training on various technologies. He has worked with companies such as HP, JP Morgan, and Yahoo. He has authored Monitoring Hadoop by Packt Publishing
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HBase administration commands


In this recipe, we will look at HBase administration commands, which are very useful for troubleshooting and managing the cluster.

Being an HBase administrator in a company, one needs to perform backup, recovery, troubleshooting, tuning, and many other complex things. It is good to know about the commands to make intuitive decisions.

Getting ready

To complete the recipe, you must have a running HBase cluster and must have completed the Setting up HBase multi-node cluster recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Connect to the master1.cyrus.com master node in the cluster and switch to the user hadoop. Note that we can connect to any node in the cluster or use HBase client for connections.

  2. Connect to the HBase shell prompt and execute the commands shown in the next few steps to get familiar with HBase:

    $ hbase shell
      hbase> list
      hbase> version
      hbase> whoami
    
  3. We can drop the column family or disable a table as shown next. Do not execute these on production database, unless...

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Gurmukh Singh is a seasoned technology professional with 14+ years of industry experience in infrastructure design, distributed systems, performance optimization, and networks. He has worked in big data domain for the last 5 years and provides consultancy and training on various technologies. He has worked with companies such as HP, JP Morgan, and Yahoo. He has authored Monitoring Hadoop by Packt Publishing
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