Install and Enable Ranger HDFS Plug-in
- Extract your build at the appropriate place. - Copy - ranger-<version>-SNAPSHOT-hdfs-plugin.tar.gzto NameNode_host in directory- /usr/hdp/<hdp-version>/.
- Change directory to - /usr/hdp/<hdp-version>.
- Untar - ranger-<version>-SNAPSHOT-SNAPSHOT-hdfs-plugin.tar.gz.
- Change directories to - ranger-<version>-SNAPSHOT-hdfs-plugin.
- Edit the - install.propertiesfile.- Enter the appropriate values for each of the following properties: - Table 14.14. install.properties Property Values - Property - Values - POLICY_MGR_URL - http://<FQDN_of_ranger_admin_host>:6080 - REPOSITORY_NAME - hadoopdev - Additionally, for the Audit info, Solr/HDFS options are available. 
- Enable the HDFS plug-in: - export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 ./enable-hdfs-plugin.sh 
- Stop and start the namenode: - su hdfs -c "/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh stop namenode" su hdfs -c "/usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh start namenode" 
- Create the default repo for HDFS with proper configuration. - In the custom repo configuration, set the component user to - hdfsfor each of the following properties:- policy.download.auth.users or policy.grantrevoke.auth.users 
- tag.download.auth.users 
 
- Use the - Audit->pluginstab to verify that the HDFS plug-in is communicating with Ranger admin.

