Updating the Log Forwarder Parcel

If you want to use a newer set of custom Log Forwarder configuration files to send the logs to an External Audit Store, then you must update, distribute, and activate the PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel on all the nodes in the cluster.

To update the Log Forwarder parcel:

Log in to the host machine, which contains the Big Data Protector configurator script.
To execute the configurator script, run the following command:
```
BDPConfigurator_CDP-PVC-Base-7.1_<BDP_version>.sh
```

Press ENTER.
The prompt to continue the configuration of Big Data Protector appears.

*****************************************************************************
        Welcome to the Big Data Protector Configurator Wizard
*****************************************************************************
This will setup the Big Data Protector Installation Files for CDP PVC Base

Do you want to continue? [yes or no]:

To start configuration of the Big Data Protector, type yes.

Press ENTER.

The prompt to select the type of installation file appears.

Big Data Protector Configurator started...
Unpacking...
Extracting files...


Select the type of Installation files you want to generate.
[ 1: Create All ]      : Creates entire Big Data Protector CSDs and Parcels.
[ 2: Update PTY_CERT ] : Creates new PTY_CERT parcel with an incremented patch version.
                     Use this if you have updated the ESA certificates.
[ 3: Update PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF ]
                   : Creates new PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel with an incremented patch version.
                     Use this if you want to set Custom LogForwarder configuration files to
                     forward logs to an External Audit Store.

[ 1, 2 or 3 ]:

To update the Log Forwarder parcel, type 3.

Press ENTER.

The prompt to select the operating system version appears.

Select the OS version for Cloudera Manager Parcel.
This will be used as the OS Distro suffix in the Parcel name.

[ 1: el7 ]    :  RHEL 7 and clones (CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc)
[ 2: el8 ]    :  RHEL 8 and clones (CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc)
[ 3: el9 ]    :  RHEL 9 and clones (CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc)
[ 4: sles12 ] :  SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 12.x

Enter the no.:

Depending on the requirements, type 1, 2, 3, or 4 to select the operating system version for the Big Data Protector parcels.

Press ENTER.

The prompt to enter the local directory path that stores the Log Forwarder configuration files appears.

Enter the local directory path on this machine that stores the LogForwarder configuration files for External Audit Store:

Type the local directory path that stores the Log Forwarder configuration files.

Press ENTER.

The prompt to enter the current version of the Log Forwarder configuration parcel appears.

Generating Installation files...

NOTE:
You can verify the version of the activated PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel from the parcel
name, such as PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF-x.x.x.x_CDPx.x.p<version>-<os>.parcel, where the
<version> parameter denotes the patch version of the PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel.

For Example: If the current activated PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel is
PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF-x.x.x.x_CDPx.x.p0-<os>.parcel, the patch version of the PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF
parcel will be 0. Do NOT include 'p' while specifying the version.

Enter the <version> of the current PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF Parcel as specified in the parcel name [0]:

Type the version of the Log Forwarder configuration parcel.

Press ENTER.

The installer generates the PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel in the ./Installation_Files/ directory.

The updated PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel 'PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF-<BDP_version>_CDP7.1.p1-<operating_system_version>.parcel' is generated in ./Installation_Files/ directory.
NOTE:
Copy PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF-<BDP_version>_CDP7.1.p1-<operating_system_version>.parcel and .sha files to Cloudera Manager local parcel repository.

Copy the new PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel to the local parcel repository of Cloudera Manager.
The default local parcel repository for Cloudera Manager is located in the /opt/cloudera/parcel-repo/ directory.
Navigate to the local parcel repository directory.
To assign the ownership permissions for the Cloudera SCM to the new Log Forwarder configuration parcel and checksum file, run the following command:
```
chown cloudera-scm:cloudera-scm PTY_*
```
Press ENTER.
To assign 640 permissions to the parcel files, run the following command.
```
chmod 640 PTY_*
```
Press ENTER.
The command assigns read and write permissions to the owner, read permissions to the group, and restricts access to all other users.
Log in to the Cloudera Manager web interface.
Navigate to the Parcels page.
The Parcels page appears.
To fetch the updated parcels, click Check for New Parcels.
The Cloudera Manager will fetch the updated PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel.
Distribute the new PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel to the nodes.
Note: For more information about distributing the new PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel, refer to the section Distributing the parcels.
Activate the new PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel on the nodes.
Note: For more information about activating the new PTY_LOGFORWARDER_CONF parcel, refer to the section Activating the parcels.
Restart the BDP PEP service.

Feedback

Was this page helpful?

Last modified : February 20, 2026