let me rephrase this: can any of the kafka process run outside the hadoop cluster as long as it can connect to the hadoop process from that host ? e.g :
hostA (NOT in th hadoop cluster) : runs kafka hadoop consumer hostB (in th hadoop cluster) : runs jobtracker Cheers, Ben- On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Jun Rao <jun...@gmail.com> wrote: > My understanding is that it's not tied to localhost. You just need to change > the jobtracker setting in you Hadoop config. > > Thanks, > > Jun > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Ben Ciceron <b...@triggit.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> does kafka hadoop consumer expect the jobtracker to run locally only ? >> it seems it expect it locally (localhost/127.0.0.1:9001) . >> Is it a requirement or there is a way to change it to a remote uri ? >> >> Cheers, >> Ben- >> >
