# Cloudera Navigator

#### Connectivity Summary

Cloudera Navigator console audits includes events collected by Cloudera Manager:

* **Service lifecycle events:** activate, create, delete, deploy, download, install, start, stop, update, upgrade etc.
* **User security related events:** add / delete user, login fail / success

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OvalEdge will make a request to the Cloudera navigator using **Rest API**.

We are currently making the calls to get audit events for:

1. Hive
2. Impala
3. HBase
4. HDFS

## Technical Details

* Cloudera Navigator is connected to OvalEdge application through REST API.
* GET operation is used to get the audit events from Cloudera navigator.
* Audits can be Searched / Filtered by date based on the requirement.

## Pre-requisites

To implement a connection to your Cloudera Navigator from OvalEdge, you must have the following:

* An Admin / Service account with access
* Connection details as specified in the below section should be available.

## **Connection Details**

When you set up a Cloudera Navigator connection, you must configure the connection properties. The following are the Cloudera Navigator connection properties:

* Database Type – Cloudera Navigator
* License Type - Standard (by default)
* Connection Name **\*** : Select a Connection name for the Cloudera Navigator. The name that you specify is a reference name to easily identify the connection in OvalEdge.\
  Example: Navigator Source OE
* Cloudera Navigator URL **\*** : IP Address / URL with port
* Username **\*** : User account login username\
  Password **\*** : User account login password
* Connection Id: 
  * HDFS - Connection Id of crawled HDFS connection in OvalEdge
  * HBase  - Connection Id of crawled HBase connection in OvalEdge
  * Hive - Connection Id of crawled HBase connection in OvalEdge
  * Impala - Connection Id of crawled HBase connection in OvalEdge

Once the connectivity is established, we can now access the Navigator Audit Events from OvalEdge.

> When the following details are provided,
>
> 1. Connection Id's of HDFS / HBase / Hive / Impala and
> 2. Connectors are crawled 
>
> we can navigate to respective Schema / Table from live audits integrated into OvalEdge.

## FAQs

1. **How many events will be shown by default?**\
   Last 1 hour audits will be shown by default.
2. **What are the Navigator API versions supported by OvalEdge?**\
   Supported versions: 5.0 onwards
3. **Can we still access the audit events if we change the password in Cloudera Navigator?**\
   No, connection must be re-validated with the appropriate credentials to access the audit events. 
4. **Does OvalEdge store the audit events?**\
   OvalEdge does not store any audit events, we are having only a live API call.

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