Hi Mittra
As far as I knew, "hdfs haadmin -ns" is not availble..(please someone can correct, If I am wrong..) Please check following help command for haadmin.. [root@linux bin]# ./hdfs haadmin No GC_PROFILE is given. Defaults to medium. Usage: DFSHAAdmin [-ns <nameserviceId>] [-transitionToActive <serviceId> [--forceactive]] [-transitionToStandby <serviceId>] [-failover [--forcefence] [--forceactive] <serviceId> <serviceId>] [-getServiceState <serviceId>] [-checkHealth <serviceId>] [-help <command>] Example: if your service id's are like nn1,nn2 then you can try like,, hdfs haadmin -getServiceState nn1. Thanks & Regards Brahma Reddy Battula ________________________________________ From: Devopam Mittra [devo...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2014 10:33 AM To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: unable to use hdfs haadmin -ns <nameserviceId> on HDP2.1 , HDFS2.4.0.2.1 hi All, I wanted to systematically probe and list all my namenode(s) via CLI. An easier way was to maintain a masters conf file , but I want to dynamically find the same leveraging the system metadata. In process of trying to find the same , I tried to use hdfs haadmin -ns ... but to my dismay the command always returns "Missing Command" on the console as if I am doing something syntactically wrong. I know my nameserviceId and I tried both capital letters and all small (just to be sure to not commit a silly mistake). Can you please help me in trying to figure out what I am doing wrong here. -- Devopam Mittra Life and Relations are not binary