Hi, I am running into the same issue.
I added the "/usr/lib/phoenix/*" as you suggested but now i get new error, /Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils at org.apache.phoenix.pherf.util.ResourceList.getResources(ResourceList.java:113) at org.apache.phoenix.pherf.util.ResourceList.getResourcesPaths(ResourceList.java:76) at org.apache.phoenix.pherf.util.ResourceList.getResourceList(ResourceList.java:52) at org.apache.phoenix.pherf.configuration.XMLConfigParser.getResources(XMLConfigParser.java:176) at org.apache.phoenix.pherf.configuration.XMLConfigParser.init(XMLConfigParser.java:164) at org.apache.phoenix.pherf.configuration.XMLConfigParser.<init>(XMLConfigParser.java:49) at org.apache.phoenix.pherf.Pherf.run(Pherf.java:233) at org.apache.phoenix.pherf.Pherf.main(Pherf.java:194) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)/ I think some of the JAR's are missing in the Phoenix jars. -- View this message in context: http://apache-phoenix-user-list.1124778.n5.nabble.com/Re-NoClassDefFoundError-with-pherf-cluster-py-tp2140p3541.html Sent from the Apache Phoenix User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.