You can start an HBase shell from the InfoSphere®
BigInsights™ Tools for Eclipse to run HBase commands.
About this task
See the InfoSphere BigInsights installation
instructions to get started.
To run the HBase shell as the user that registered the
InfoSphere BigInsights server:
- Ensure that the user of the operating system
from which you start the HBase shell is the same as the
BigInsights user.
- Configure the operating system user ID to run
on behalf of the BigInsights user. For more information, see Configuring
proxy users for your Hadoop File System.
Procedure
- Select a server
to run a command from in the BigInsights server view.
- Right-click the
server and select Open HBase
Shell. An HBase shell window opens in the console view.
- Type your HBase
command, and click Enter to run
the command.
- To close the
HBase shell, click Terminate in
the Console view.