Looks like you can INSTALL OOZIE_SERVER directly without moving it to MAINTENANCE state as its in the INIT state.
Step 5 at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AMBARI/Add+a+host+and+deploy+com ponents+using+APIs can give you details around installing specific components. Before you reinstall oozie, ensure that its stopped. From: Artem Ervits <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 12:52 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: api questions Hello all, I was messing with Hue and inadvertenly messed up my Oozie installation. I wanted to reinstall and got myself in a situation where I¹m having trouble recovering from . Using the Ambari API I am trying to put Oozie in maintenance mode just so I could reinstall and I am getting the following message: message" : "org.apache.ambari.server.controller.spi.SystemException: An internal system exception occurred: Invalid transition for servicecomponenthost, clusterName=NYPTest, clusterId=2, serviceName=OOZIE, componentName=OOZIE_SERVER, hostname=machine02, currentState=INIT, newDesiredState=MAINTENANCE" If I try to use api to install the service I get: "status" : 404, "message" : "org.apache.ambari.server.controller.spi.NoSuchResourceException: The specified resource doesn't exist: Service not found, Any hints? This electronic message is intended to be for the use only of the named recipient, and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error or are not the named recipient, please notify us immediately by contacting the sender at the electronic mail address noted above, and delete and destroy all copies of this message. Thank you. -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.
