Cloudera Navigator 2 Requirements and Supported Versions

The following sections describe various requirements and supported versions of Cloudera Manager, databases, browsers, and CDH and managed service versions for Cloudera Navigator 2.

For more information on compatibility with other components, see the Cloudera Product Compatibility Matrix.

Cloudera Manager Requirements

Cloudera Navigator 2.1 is available with Cloudera Manager 5.2. For information on the requirements for installing Cloudera Manager, see Cloudera Manager 5 Requirements and Supported Versions.

Supported Databases

Cloudera Navigator, which stores audit reports, and entity metadata, policies, and user authorization and audit report metadata, supports the following databases:
  • MySQL - 5.1, 5.5, and 5.6
  • Oracle 11gR2
  • PostgreSQL - 8.1, 8.3, 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

Supported Browsers

The Cloudera Navigator UI, which you use to create and view audit reports, search and update metadata, and configure Cloudera Navigator user groups, supports the following browsers:
  • Mozilla Firefox 24 and higher
  • Google Chrome 36 and higher
  • Safari 5 and higher

Supported CDH and Managed Service Versions

This section describes the CDH and managed service versions supported by the Cloudera Navigator auditing and metadata components.

Cloudera Navigator Auditing Component

This section describes the service versions and audited operations supported by the Cloudera Navigator auditing component.

  • HDFS - Minimum supported version: CDH 4.0.0.
    The captured operations are:
    • Operations that access or modify a file's or directory's data or metadata
    • Operations denied due to lack of privileges
  • HBase - Minimum supported version: CDH 4.0.0.
  • Hive - Minimum supported versions: CDH 4.2.0, CDH 4.4.0 for operations denied due to lack of privileges.
    The captured operations are:
    • Operations (except grant, revoke, and metadata access only) sent to HiveServer2
    • Operations denied due to lack of privileges
  • Hue - Minimum supported version: CDH 4.2.0.
    The captured operations are:
    • Operations (except grant, revoke, and metadata access only) sent to Beeswax Server
  • Cloudera Impala - Minimum supported version: Cloudera Impala 1.2.1.
    The captured operations are:
    • Queries denied due to lack of privileges
    • Queries that pass analysis
  • Sentry
    The captured operations are:
    • Operations sent to the HiveServer2 and Hive Metastore Server roles and Impala service
    • Add and delete roles, assign roles to groups and remove roles from groups, create and delete privileges, grant and revoke privileges
    • Operations denied due to lack of privileges

Cloudera Navigator Metadata Component

This section describes the CDH and managed service versions supported by the Cloudera Navigator metadata component.

CDH 4.4.0 and higher for all components except Pig. For Pig, CDH 4.6.0 and higher. The supported components are:
  • HDFS. However, federated HDFS is not supported.
  • Hive
  • MapReduce
  • Oozie
  • Pig
  • Sqoop 1 - all Cloudera connectors are supported.
  • YARN