Before You Begin the Installation on Hadoop

Please review the following information before you begin installing Enterprise Steam.

Note: This is obly relevant when installing Steam on Hadoop!

• Complete the preinstall worksheet to identify what is necessary for the installation.

• Obtain the Enterprise Steam license key.

• Sudo or root access is required to install Enterprise Steam.

• For H2O and Sparkling Water, a Hadoop admin is needed in order to setup impersonation.

• The installation creates a new system user called “steam” if it does not exist. It is highly recommended to use this service ID to run Enterprise Steam.

• Enterprise Steam requires a single port (:9555) to be open before installation. Follow your regular process for opening ports for Enterprise Steam.

• If configuring LDAP, be sure that you have a good understanding of LDAP groups in order to get the LDAP connection strings to be configured in the Steam UI.

• Pre-Installation Worksheet
  • General Information
  • For Hadoop Users
  • For Spark Users
  • For LDAP/AD Users
  • For Kerberos Users
• Obtaining the License Key