Github user orenpai commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/1970 To summarize, es-hadoop is aware that from command line, non spark.* parameters get ignored so they created a workaround to allow setting the parameters through spark.es.* parameters. Either way, as I suspected, the parameters themselves are serialized separately to the executors and not through the spark configuration. I must say that I still think that blocking any non-spark configuration settings is overprotective relative to what you can perform in code, but I am no longer blocked by this issue.
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