Arunkumar, This looks like the broker which is failing may not be having the ranger configuration. Please make sure that it also has the necessary ranger plugin jars and ranger*.xml files in its class path and it is picking up correctly. Check the permission of the jars and files also.
Thanks, Ramesh From: arun kumar <pm_arunku...@hotmail.com<mailto:pm_arunku...@hotmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@ranger.apache.org<mailto:user@ranger.apache.org>" <user@ranger.apache.org<mailto:user@ranger.apache.org>> Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 at 2:42 PM To: "user@ranger.apache.org<mailto:user@ranger.apache.org>" <user@ranger.apache.org<mailto:user@ranger.apache.org>> Subject: Error while starting kafka broker with Apache Ranger Hi All I am trying to configure ranger with kafka and I am getting an exception "URI is not absolute". I have 2 brokers running on same machine one starts without exception but the other does not. Any insight is highly appreciated. Erro log below for your reference. Thanks in advance Arunkumar ERROR PolicyRefresher(serviceName=null): failed to refresh policies. Will continue to use last known version of policies (-1) (org.apache.ranger.plugin.util.PolicyRefresher) com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandlerException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI is not absolute at com.sun.jersey.client.urlconnection.URLConnectionClientHandler.handle(URLConnectionClientHandler.java:151) at com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client.handle(Client.java:648) at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.handle(WebResource.java:680) at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.access$200(WebResource.java:74) at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource$Builder.get(WebResource.java:507) at org.apache.ranger.admin.client.RangerAdminRESTClient.getServicePoliciesIfUpdated(RangerAdminRESTClient.java:127) at org.apache.ranger.plugin.util.PolicyRefresher.loadPolicyfromPolicyAdmin(PolicyRefresher.java:264) at org.apache.ranger.plugin.util.PolicyRefresher.loadPolicy(PolicyRefresher.java:202) at org.apache.ranger.plugin.util.PolicyRefresher.run(PolicyRefresher.java:171) Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URI is not absolute at java.net.URI.toURL(URI.java:1088) at com.sun.jersey.client.urlconnection.URLConnectionClientHandler._invoke(URLConnectionClientHandler.java:159) at com.sun.jersey.client.urlconnection.URLConnectionClientHandler.handle(URLConnectionClientHandler.java:149) ... 8 more
