About Hue

The About Hue application displays the version of Hue you are running. If you are a superuser, it lets you perform Hue setup tasks, and lets you view configuration and logs.

Starting About Hue

To start the About Hue application, click in the navigation bar at the top of the Hue browser page. It opens to the Quick Start Wizard screen.

Quick Start Wizard

The Quick Start wizard allows you to perform the following Hue setup operations by clicking the tab of each step or sequentially by clicking Next in each screen:

  1. Check Configuration validates your Hue configuration. It will note any potential misconfiguration and provide hints as to how to fix them. You can edit the configuration file described in the next section or use Cloudera Manager, if installed, to manage your changes.
  2. Examples contains links to install examples into the Beeswax, Cloudera Impala, Metastore Manager, Job Designer, Oozie Editor/Dashboard, and Pig Editor applications.
  3. Users contains a link to the User Admin application to create or import users and a checkbox to enable and disable collection of usage information.
  4. Go! - displays the Hue home screen, which contains links to the different categories of applications supported by Hue: Query, Hadoop, and Workflow.

Configuration

Displays a list of the installed Hue applications and their configuration. The location of the folder containing the Hue configuration files is shown at the top of the page. Hue configuration settings are in the hue.ini configuration file.

Click the tabs under Configuration Sections and Variables to see the settings configured for each application. For information on configuring these settings, see Hue Configuration in CDH Installation.

Server Logs

Displays the Hue Server log and allows you to download the log to your local system in a zip file.