Do we clearly state that in distributed mode, you have to start the
drillbit daemon on each node before attaching a client will work?

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Jacques Nadeau
CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Kristine Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Confirming that your feedback was good--thanks again. We've
> clarified/corrected these things:
>
>    - The intro and embedded mode installation pages now say embedded mode
>    is for using Drill *only* on a single node.
>    - The intro and pre-requisites pages now explicitly state that a
>    pre-installed ZooKeeper is *not *needed for the embedded mode
>    installation.
>    - The distributed mode installation prerequisites page now points to the
>    documentation that defines a ZooKeeper quorum.
>    - The extraneous zk= have been removed from the example startup script.
>
> Here are links to the corrected pages:
>
>    - https://drill.apache.org/docs/install-drill-introduction/
>    - https://drill.apache.org/docs/embedded-mode-prerequisites/
>    - https://drill.apache.org/docs/distributed-mode-prerequisites/
>    -
>
> https://drill.apache.org/docs/starting-drill-in-distributed-mode/#sqlline-arguments-and-connection-parameters
>
>
> Kristine Hahn
> Sr. Technical Writer
> 415-497-8107 @krishahn skype:krishahn
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 10:24 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I could be wrong in my assumptions, too. Please correct me if I am, I'd
> > really appreciate that!
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On 30-Dec-2015, at 11:11 PM, Kristine Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks for the feedback. We'll make the corrections you suggested right
> > > away. Sorry for the inconvenience. We really appreciate you letting us
> > know.
> > >
> > > Kristine Hahn
> > > Sr. Technical Writer
> > > 415-497-8107 @krishahn skype:krishahn
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Rohit Kulkarni <
> > [email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello all,
> > >>
> > >> I am using Drill to aggregate various data storage nodes like S3,
> > Redshift,
> > >> Hive and HDFS. I followed the documentation as is and it could only
> > take me
> > >> so far. I needed clarifications on a couple of things below -
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>   - For my use case, I needed distributed drill cluster. This setup of
> > >>   Drill requires Zookeeper. But nowhere it is mentioned in the
> > >> documentation
> > >>   that it should be Distributed Zookeeper, and *not Standalone. *I
> > >>   initially started zookeeper services in individual nodes and they
> were
> > >>   started as standalone services on localhost. After starting
> > drillbit.sh
> > >> ,
> > >>   weirdly I could see 3 out of 5 drillbits runnign in the UI. After
> > >>   restarting the number went to 4 drillbits, and next time it showed
> > only
> > >> 2.
> > >>   This unreliable set up was confusing because I'd done everything
> > >> according
> > >>   to the documentation. Zookeeper connections for HOST1:2181,
> HOST2:2181
> > >> etc
> > >>   is still cakked Zookeeper Quorum isn't it? Or it isn't a Quorum
> unless
> > >> you
> > >>   start Zookeeper services in distributed way?
> > >>   Also, does Drill still run in distributed fashion without Zookeeper
> > set
> > >>   up in distributed mode?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>   - According to this line in documentation on starting drill in
> > >>   distributed mode Using an Ad-Hoc Connection to Drill - (you can
> Ctrl+F
> > >> this
> > >>   line below to find location)
> > >>
> > >>   *The following command starts the Drill shell in a cluster
> configured
> > to
> > >>   run ZooKeeper on three nodes:*
> > >>
> > >>   *bin/sqlline –u jdbc:drill:zk=cento23,zk=centos24,zk=centos26:5181*
> > >>
> > >>   I think it should be -
> > >>   *bin/sqlline –u jdbc:drill:zk=cento23,centos24,centos26:5181*
> > >>
> > >>   because it worked for me and threw an error otherwise.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> ​Let me know if you have observed this and if I am wrong with my
> > >> assumptions somewhere..!!
> > >> ​
> > >> PS: Awesome job with Drill 1.4, Dev team! :-)
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Warm Regards,
> > >> Rohit Kulkarni
> > >>
> >
>

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