Disabling Redaction of sensitive information when using the Cloudera Manager API

By default, Cloudera Manager API redacts sensitive information when exporting configuration information. You can disable redaction.

By default, Cloudera Manager redacts sensitive information from the exported configuration JSON file. If you need the ability to restore the Cloudera Manager configuration, you must do one of the following:
  • Disable redaction. The JSON file will contain all the configurations, including sensitive information and can be used to restore the Cloudera Manager configuration.
  • Replace the redacted information. The JSON will contain the word "REDACTED" where sensitive information was redacted. Replace these values with the correct values before restoring the Cloudera Manager configuration.

To disable redaction:

  1. Log in the Cloudera Manager server host using ssh.
  2. Edit the /etc/default/cloudera-scm-server file by adding the following property (separate each property with a space) to the line that begins with export CMF_JAVA_OPTS.
    For example:
    export CMF_JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx2G -Dcom.cloudera.api.redaction=false"
  3. Restart Cloudera Manager server:
    sudo service cloudera-scm-server restart