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Installing Unravel Server on a GCE VM

This topic explains how to create a new GCE instance, install and configure Unravel Server on the new GCE instance, and connect it to the GCE cluster you want to monitor.

Important

If you have not already done so, confirm your cluster meets Unravel's hosting requirements.

1. Create a GCE instance

  1. On your GCP console, go to the GCEs dashboard and click Create Instance.

  2. Select the following options based on Unravel's instance requirements:

    • Base OS

    • Instance type and size

    • GCE instance's Firewall Rules / IAM role

      Best practice is to create an IAM role that contains the policy that only reads the specific Cloud storage bucket used on Dataproc cluster. Then create an instance profile and add the IAM role to it.

    • Ports

    • Networking

      The GCE instance must be in the same region with the target Dataproc clusters which the Unravel compute node is monitoring.

    • Firewall rules or policies

      • Create a Cloud storage ReadAccess only IAM role and assign it to Unravel GCE to read the archive logs on the Cloud storage bucket configured for the Dataproc cluster.

      • Create TCP and UDP connections from the Dataproc master node to Unravel Compute node.

      • Create a firewall rule that allows port 3000 and port 4043 from Dataproc cluster nodes' IP address, and put the member of the Firewall Rules used on Dataproc cluster in this rule.

      Sample inbound rule

      Type

      Protocol

      Port range

      Source

      All traffic

      All

      All

      For example, 10.10.0.0/16

      SSH

      TCP

      22

      0.0.0.0/0 or trusted public IP for SSH access

      Custom TCP Rule

      TCP

      3000

      Custom TCP Rule

      TCP

      4043

      Sample outbound rule

      Type

      Protocol

      Port range

      Source

      All traffic

      All

      All

      0.0.0.0/0

      Note

      The GCE instance should have all TCP access to the Dataproc cluster (server/parent or worker) nodes. You can grant access by inserting adding firewall rules of the Dataproc server/parent and worker with all TCP, all port range.

      If it isn't possible to allow the Unravel VM access to all traffic to Dataproc cluster, you must minimally allow it to access cluster nodes' TCP ports 9870, 9866 and 9867.

      While creating the GCE instance add the Firewall properties, Enable the HTTP and HTTPS traffic Go to Network tab and add Network tags. (This is the firewall rules that is already created.)

      dataproce-https-allow.png
2. Configure the GCE instance

  1. Disable selinux.

    sudo setenforce Permissive

  2. Edit /etc/selinux/config to make sure the setting persists after reboot and make sure SELINUX=permissive.

    sudo vi /etc/selinux/config

  3. Install libaio.x86_64, lzop.x86_64, and ntp.x86_64.

    sudo yum install -y libaio.x86_64
sudo yum install -y lzop.x86_64
sudo yum install -y ntp.x86_64

  4. Start ntpd and check the system time.

    sudo service ntpd start
sudo ntpq -p

  5. Create a new user named hadoop.

    sudo useradd hadoop
4. Install the Unravel RPM on the GCE instance

  1. Download the Unravel Server RPM.

  2. Install the Unravel Server RPM.

    The precise filename can vary, depending on how it was fetched or copied.

    sudo rpm -U unravel-4.5.0.*-EMR-latest.rpm

  3. Switch User and User-group to hadoophadoop.

    sudo /usr/local/unravel/install_bin/switch_to_user.sh hadoop hadoop

  4. Add the following property to /usr/local/unravel/etc/unravel.properties:

    com.unraveldata.onprem=false

  5. For monitoring Dataproc Spark service, add the following properties to /usr/local/unravel/etc/unravel.properties:

    com.unraveldata.spark.live.pipeline.enabled=true
com.unraveldata.spark.hadoopFsMulti.useFilteredFiles=true
com.unraveldata.spark.events.enableCaching=true

The installation creates the following items:

  • Virtualization type: HVM

  • User unravel (if it doesn't exist already).

  • /etc/init.d/unravel_* scripts for controlling services, and /etc/init.d/unravel_all.sh which you can use to manually stop, start, and get status of all daemons in proper order.

6. Log into Unravel UI

  1. Start Unravel daemons.

    sudo /etc/init.d/unravel_all.sh start

  2. Create an SSH tunnel from your workstation to the Unravel GCE instance.

    ssh -i ssh_key.pem centos@unravel-host-ip -L 3000:127.0.0.1:3000

  3. Using a supported web browser (see Unravel's Google Dataproc​ compatibility matrix), navigate to http://127.0.0.1:3000 and log in with username admin with password unraveldata.

    signin.png

    See Unravel product documentation to learn how to use Unravel.

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