Prerequisite tasks

Before you can create the connections to your Hadoop servers, ensure that the prerequisites are met.

Ensure that IBM® Open Platform with Apache Hadoop, Cloudera Hadoop, Hortonworks, or Huawei FusionInsight HD is installed in your environment.

The following tasks are only relevant if you are manually configuring the integration:

Create a user for each DataNode on the Hadoop cluster.
Ensure that the username for each DataNode is the same as the IBM Operations Analytics Log Analysis username on the IBM Operations Analytics Log Analysis server.