Hi Bigtop! I'm looking to use bigtop to help set up a small hadoop cluster. I'm currently messing about with the hadoop tarball and all of the associated xml files, and I don't really have the time or expertise to get it up and working.
Jay suggested that bigtop may be a good solution, so I've decided to give it a shot. Unfortunately, documentation is fairly sparse and I'm not quite sure where to start. I've cloned the github repo and used the startup.sh script found in bigtop/bigtop-deploy/vm/vagrant-puppet to set up a virtual cluster, but I am unsure how to apply this to physical machines. I'm also not quite sure how to get hadoop and hdfs up and working. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, David Fryer
