Set up the Ambari server

This topic describes how to set up the Ambari server.

On the Ambari server host, run:

ambari-server setup

Note: If you are using Hive MySQL, you also need to set up the MySQL connector and run ambari-server setup --jdbc-db=mysql --jdbc-driver=/path/to/mysql/mysql-connector-java.jar.

See Hortonworks Using Hive with MySQL.

If you plan to use a non-root user id, see Restricting root access.