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Overview

Pulse Deployment Overview

Deployment: Docker/Podman-Based Deployment: Kubernetes-Based

Prerequisites

Pulse Server Resource Calculator Supported Cipher Suites

Prerequisites: Docker/Podman-Based

Plan Pulse Server Nodes Pulse Server Configuration Requirements Ports Accessed by Pulse Services Pulse Server Docker Requirements Pulse Server Podman Requirements

Prerequisites: Kubernetes-Based

Network Port Requirements Resource Requirements Set up Configuration Files Ingress for Kubernetes (K8S) Pulse Operator CRD and RBAC

Configure Hadoop Cluster Changes

Configure Common Cluster Changes

Configure HDFS Access for Pulse Configure MapReduce and YARN ACLs for Pulse Configure Access Privileges for Non-HDFS Users Grant MySQL Permissions

Configure ODP Cluster Services for Pulse

Configure ODP Kafka and Kafka 3 Configure ODP ZooKeeper Configure ODP Hive and Tez Configure ODP Spark 2 and 3 Configure ODP Trino Configure ODP Ranger Configure ODP Ranger KMS Configure ODP ClickHouse Configure ODP Flink

Configure HDP Cluster Services for Pulse

Configure HDP Kafka and Kafka 3 Configure HDP ZooKeeper Configure HDP Hive, Tez, and Sqoop Configure HDP Spark

Configure CDP Cluster Services for Pulse

Configure CDP Kafka and Zookeeper Configure CDP Spark Configure CDP Hive and Tez

Configure CDH Cluster Services for Pulse

Configure CDH Kafka and Zookeeper Configure CDH Spark Configure CDH Hive and Sqoop

Configure Additional Changes for HDP and ODP Supported Hook Versions

Installation

Set up and Install Pulse

Install Pulse on Single Node (Docker/Podman-Based) Install Pulse on Multiple Nodes (Docker/Podman-Based)

Install Pulse on Kubernetes (Kubernetes-Based)

Deploy Agents and Server

Deploy Pulse Agents (Hydra) Install Pulse Manager Server Deploy Pulse Manager Agent

Deploy Pulse Database

Deploy Pulse Services

Deploy Pulse Core Services Deploy Pulse Add-on Services

Configure the Cluster Manage Pulse Cluster using APIs Install Podman in a Kubernetes Cluster Configure Kubernetes Metrics

Troubleshooting

Set readOnlyRootFSEnabled Parameter to True

Install Pulse Agents

Install Agents on Non-CDP Cluster Nodes

Install Agents Using Accelo Command (with SSH access) Install Agents Using Offline Method (without SSH access) Install Agents Using Ambari UI Add Newly Added Hosts in Ambari Cluster to Pulse and Deploy Agents

Install Agents on CDP Cluster Nodes

Enable JMXTrans Agent

Configure the Java Options for Services Using JMX Agent in Ambari Configure the Java Options for Services Using JMX Agent in CDP

Install Agents on Standalone VM or Kuberntes

Install PulseNode Agent on Standalone VM Install PulseAXN Agent on Standalone VM Deploy PulseAXN Agent on Kubernetes Post-Installation Steps for Pulseaxn Agent

Configure System Resources for Pulse Agents

Configure Pulse to Monitor Single Node Standalone Cluster

Configure Pulse to Monitor Standalone Kafka Configure Pulse to Monitor Standalone Kafka 3 Configure Pulse to Monitor Standalone Spark Set Up NiFi in Pulse

Configure Pulse to Monitor Hadoop Services

Configure Pulse to Monitor ClickHouse Configure Pulse to Monitor Flink Configure Pulse to Monitor MLflow Configure Pulse to Monitor Trino (Custom Java Binary)

Configure Pulse to Monitor Impala

Configure Impala Connector Configure Impala Agent

Configure Pulse to Monitor Standalone Deployments on K8s

Configure Trino and Pulse to Monitor Standalone Trino Deployed on Kubernetes

Advanced Installation

Deploy Pulse for Different Scenarios

Multi-Distribution Cluster Support in Pulse CDP Multi-node, Multi-KDC, Multi-Cluster Multi-Node Setup for NATS CDP Deployment for Single KDC Enable MultiKDC

Deploy Pulse Services on a Separate Node

Deploy Logsearch Service on a Separate Node Deploy Alerts Service on a Separate Node Deploy Notifications Service on a Separate Node Deploy Director Service on a Separate Node Deploy Connector Service on a Separate Node Deploy TSDB Service on a Separate Node Deploy FS Service on a Separate Node Deploy FS Analytics on a Separate Node

Configure Pulse to Monitor Hadoop Services with Custom Settings

Configure Pulse for JMX with Basic Authentication Configure Pulse for JMX with SSL Configure Pulse to Connect to Kafka With SCRAM and SSL Configure Pulse to Connect to Hadoop Services via Knox with LDAP Configure Pulse to Monitor Multiple Kafka clusters under a single Hadoop Cluster Configure Pulse to Monitor Standalone Kafka 3 with Kerberos

Enable High Availability for GraphQL MongoDB Shard Cluster Data Distribution Deploy Playbooks

Admin UI (K8S only)

Pulse Admin UI Configure Extra Hosts Configure Cluster Details Deploy Pulse Core Services

Manage Configured Clusters

Deploy Pulse Add-on Services Upload Certificates and Configurations Manage Pulse-Specific Actions Manage Configuration Files

Manage Notifications

Configure Alert Notifications Configure Action Notifications

Pulse Administration

Manage License and Credentials

Update Pulse License Update Encrypted Passwords

Manage Pulse Server, Agents, and Plugins

Enable or Disable Pulse Agents Enable or Disable Pulse Plugins Reboot Pulse Server and Agent

Reconfigure Cluster

VARS Override Cluster Configuration

Manage Storage and Resources

Modify Storage Retention Change Component Resource Limit

Troubleshooting

Manage Elasticsearch Disk Utilization

Disaster Recovery Strategy for MongoDB and VictoriaDB Enable the NiFi API Summary Dashboard Delete Clusters from Pulse Uninstall Pulse

Upgrade

Supported Pulse Upgrade Path

Upgrade Pulse to Version 4.x.x

Upgrade Prerequisite Upgrade to Version 4.0.5 Upgrade to Version 4.0.3 Upgrade to Version 4.0.2 Upgrade to Version 4.0.1 Upgrade to Version 4.0.0

Migrate MongoDB from Version 6.0.X to 8.0.X MongoDB Manual Upgrade

Advanced Feature Integrations

Enable Notifications for All Channels Action Playbooks Database Explorer LDAP SSL/TLS for PULSE UI using ad-proxy ADMON

Configure Native SSL/TLS for Pulse Web UI

Update the SSL Options for UI

Set up LDAP for Pulse UI

Developer Tools

accelo accelo deploy accelo deploy addons accelo deploy hydra accelo deploy core accelo info accelo login accelo login docker accelo pull accelo restart accelo set accelo uninstall accelo uninstall all accelo uninstall local accelo uninstall remote accelo admin accelo admin chsh-adpulse accelo admin database accelo admin database drop-cluster accelo admin database index-db accelo admin database reload-events accelo admin encrypt accelo admin fsa accelo admin fsa load accelo admin fsa reports accelo admin makeconfig accelo config accelo config alerts accelo config alerts notifications accelo config cluster accelo config ldap accelo config kerberos accelo reconfig cluster accelo config actions notifications accelo config alerts pause-config

How to Use Pulse Public APIs API to Create Roles API to Create Bulk Users API to Fetch Version Details

Troubleshooting

LogSearch FS Analytics Connectors License Actions

Pulse › Installation › Deploy Agents and Server

Last updated: Sep 27, 2026 14:42 UTC

Deploy Agents and Server

This page describes the deployment of Pulse Agents (Hydra), Manager Server, and Manager Agent.

Deploy Pulse Agents (Hydra)
Install Pulse Manager Server
Deploy Pulse Manager Agent

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