I think you have one more restart than is strictly required but I get your
point. IIRC, when I did the original implementation there was a bit of a
wrinkle getting the right configs on the right classpath so I punted in
favor of topology.classpath.

If you've got a more efficient way, I'm all for it.

-D...


On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Michael Miklavcic <
[email protected]> wrote:

> We currently define topology.classpath at the global level for Storm. The
> reason for this feature was to enable setting the classpath to include
> things like hbase-site and core-site without modifying the topology jar
> files on the cluster. That made things simpler, but this also has the
> consequence that Metron's installation process via Ambari looks something
> like this:
>
>    1. Install Metron
>    2. Start Metron - part of install process
>    3. Restart Storm  - bc of the new property that has been added that
>    needs to be distributed
>    4. Restart Metron - the topologies won't get the new classpath otherwise
>
> We're in effect restarting Metron a couple times, which can take some time.
>
> A possible alternative here is to set the classpath on the individual
> topologies. By doing so, we remove the need to restart Storm and Metron
> during the install. The down side is that this requires us to duplicate
> this setting for every flux file or topology, including newly-added
> topologies. What do folks think about which would be better?
>
> Best,
> Mike
>

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