Cloudera Navigator Console

The Cloudera Navigator console is the web-based user interface that provides data stewards, compliance groups, auditing teams, data engineers, and other business users access to Cloudera Navigator auditing, metadata, lineage, analytics, and other capabilities.

For example, compliance teams use the Cloudera Navigator console to view audit event reports, save reports for offline use (such as providing documented audit trails to bank auditors), and identify logon attempts by unauthorized users. Data stewards use the Cloudera Navigator console to define managed metadata models that apply to the various use cases in their organizations, define policies that apply the metadata as needed upon ingestion into the cluster, and allow other users to trace the lineage of data that has been transformed over its lifetime in the cluster, back to its source (provenance).

The Cloudera Navigator console provides a unified view of auditing, lineage, and other data management capabilities across all clusters managed by a given Cloudera Manager instance. That is, if the Cloudera Manager instance manages five clusters, the Cloudera Navigator console can gather audit events for all five clusters, as well as manage metadata and display lineage diagrams that allow tracking data sources through any number of transformations to any end result across the five clusters.

Assuming that the Cloudera Navigator data management component is running, that you have a login account for Cloudera Navigator, and that you know the host name and port of Navigator Metadata Server role (or have been given this information by your system administrator), follow the steps below to access the Cloudera Navigator console.

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Accessing the Cloudera Navigator Console

The Cloudera Navigator console can be accessed from the Cloudera Manager Admin Console or directly on the Navigator Metadata Server instance. Only Cloudera Manager users with the role of Navigator Administrator (or Full Administrator) can access Cloudera Navigator console from the Cloudera Manager Admin Console.

From the Cloudera Manager Admin Console:
  1. Open your browser.
  2. Navigate to the Cloudera Manager Admin Console.
  3. Log in as either Navigator Administrator or Full Administrator.
  4. From the menu, select Clusters > Cluster-n.
  5. Select Cloudera Navigator from the menu.
  6. Log in to the Cloudera Navigator console.
To access the Cloudera Navigator console directly:
  1. Open your browser.
  2. Navigate to the host within the cluster running the Cloudera Navigator Metadata Server role. 
    http://fqdn-1.example.com:7187/login.html
    In this example, node 1 of the cluster is running the Navigator Metadata Server role, hosted on the default port 7187. The login page displays.
  3. Log in to the Cloudera Navigator console using the credentials assigned by your administrator.
If your Cloudera Navigator instance has been configured to integrate with your organization's Active Directory (or other LDAP instance) for authentication, your credentials may be simply the same user account and password you use every day for your other production systems.

Displaying Documentation

Online documentation is accessible from Cloudera Navigator console as follows:

  1. Click Help.
  2. Select Help from the menu.

The Cloudera Data Management guide displays.

Displaying Version Information

To display the version and build number for the Cloudera Navigator data management component:
  1. Click Help.
  2. Select About from the menu. The versions for both Cloudera Navigator and the Cloudera Manager instance with which it is associated display, as shown below:

  3. Click Close to dismiss the message and redisplay the Cloudera Navigator console.