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Introduction

  The Apache Ambari project is aimed at making Hadoop management simpler by developing software for provisioning, managing, and monitoring Apache Hadoop clusters.
  Ambari provides an intuitive, easy-to-use Hadoop management web UI backed by its RESTful APIs.

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  Ambari enables System Administrators to:

  * Provision a Hadoop Cluster
  
    * Ambari provides a step-by-step wizard for installing Hadoop services across any number of hosts.
    
    * Ambari handles configuration of Hadoop services for the cluster.

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  * Manage a Hadoop Cluster
  
    * Ambari provides central management for starting, stopping, and reconfiguring Hadoop services across the entire cluster.

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  * Monitor a Hadoop Cluster
  
    * Ambari provides a dashboard for monitoring health and status of the Hadoop cluster.

    * Ambari leverages {{{http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/} Ganglia}} for metrics collection.

    * Ambari leverages {{{http://www.nagios.org/} Nagios}} for system alerting and will send emails when your attention is needed (e.g., a node goes down, remaining disk space is low, etc).

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  Ambari enables Application Developers and System Integrators to:

  * Easily integrate Hadoop provisioning, management, and monitoring capabilities to their own applications with the {{{https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/trunk/ambari-server/docs/api/v1/index.md} Ambari REST APIs}}.

Getting Started with Ambari

  Follow the {{{https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Installation+Guide+for+Ambari+1.7.0} installation guide for Ambari 1.7.0}}.

  Note: Ambari currently supports the 64-bit version of the following Operating Systems:

  * RHEL (Redhat Enterprise Linux) 5 and 6

  * CentOS 5 and 6

  * OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) 5 and 6

  * SLES (SuSE Linux Enterprise Server) 11

  * Ubuntu 12

Get Involved

  Visit the {{{https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Ambari} Ambari Wiki}} for design documents, roadmap, development guidelines, etc.

  {{{http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Ambari-User-Group} Join the Ambari User Meetup Group}}.  
  You can see the slides from {{{http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Ambari-User-Group/events/109316812/} April 2, 2013}}, {{{http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Ambari-User-Group/events/119184782/} June 25, 2013}}, and {{{http://www.meetup.com/Apache-Ambari-User-Group/events/134373312/} September 25, 2013}} meetups.

What's New?

  Check out the work going on for the {{{./whats-new.html} upcoming releases}}.



