The value you are looking at directly in ZooKeeper is in a serialized/encoded form. Those are not separator characters but more likely an encoded integer binary value that your terminal is interpreting as a printable character.
The standard way to find the active NameNode is to use the 'hdfs haadmin -getAllServiceState' command: [hdfs@host ~]# hdfs haadmin -getAllServiceState host1.com:8022 standby host2.com:8022 active You can then extract out just the active NameNode hostname: [hdfs@host ~]# hdfs haadmin -getAllServiceState | grep active | awk -F: '{ print $1; }' host1.com On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 9:39 PM Francisco de Freitas <chicofranch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When querying different HDFS clusters I get different separators (don't > really know if they're actually separators). > > From zkCli.sh on different clusters, running the following I get: > > cmd: get /hadoop-ha/clusterX/ActiveBreadCrumb > > Cluster1 (comma): > cluster1active-nn1,active-nn1.example.com �>(�> > > Cluster2 (single double quote): > cluster2active-nn2"active-nn2.example.com �>(�> > > Cluster3 (dollar sign): > cluster3active-nn3$active-nn3.example.com �>(�> > > How can I effectively write a generic code deployed on different HDFS > clusters to effectively find out which is the active NN from querying ZK? > > Or am I doing something wrong? Is the behavior above expected? -- Harsh J --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@hadoop.apache.org