SLES 12 is required for HDP 2.6.1 and later.
Contact your Customer Services Representative, or follow the instructions below before upgrading Hortonworks Data Platform on the Teradata® Appliance for Hadoop or Hadoop on Teradata® IntelliBase® 2.
Important:
Before upgrading to HDP 2.6.0 or later, review Service Bulletin SB 925 for critical considerations regarding data in-place upgrades to SLES 12 SP2.
- Go to https://access.teradata.com and log in.
- Search for SB 925.
- Scroll to find SB 925 and select the link to read the bulletin.
Verifying python-argparse Installation
Follow the instructions in SB 907 to verify that the python-argparse package is installed.
- Go to https://access.teradata.com and log in.
- Search for SB 907.
- Scroll to find SB 907 and select the link to read the bulletin.
Service Bulletin ID: SB 871
Before following the instructions from Hortonworks, you must perform the procedures in Service Bulletin ID: SB 871.
- Go to https://access.teradata.com and log in.
- Search for SB 871.
- Scroll to find SB 871 and select the link to read the bulletin.
After following the instructions in SB 871, follow the instructions on the Hortonworks website:
- Go to http://docs.hortonworks.com.
- Select the latest version of Ambari.
- Select Ambari Upgrade Guide.
Configuring Grafana Dashboards
Grafana requires at least one data source to be defined by name and a case-sensitive URL. Since Ambari registers all hosts with lowercase hostnames, Grafana may display no data and a warning message. Follow the procedure in Service Bulletin ID: SB 889 to resolve the issue.
- Go to https://access.teradata.com and log in.
- Search for SB 889.
- Scroll to SB 889 and select the link to read the bulletin.