4 DP Command Line Interface Utility

This section provides information on configuring and using the Data Processing Command Line Interface utility.

• DP CLI overview
  The DP CLI (Command Line Interface) shell utility is used to launch Data Processing workflows, either manually or via a cron job.
• DP CLI permissions and logging
  This topic provides brief overviews of permissions and logging.
• DP CLI configuration
  The DP CLI has a configuration file, edp.properties, that sets its default properties.
• DP CLI flags
  The DP CLI has a number of runtime flags that control its behavior.
• Using whitelists and blacklists
  A whitelist specifies which Hive tables should be processed in Big Data Discovery, while a blacklist specifies which Hive tables should be ignored during data processing.
• DP CLI cron job
  You can specify that the BDD installer create a cron job to run the DP CLI.
• DP CLI workflow examples
  This topic shows some workflow examples using the DP CLI.
• Processing Hive tables with Snappy compression
  This topic explains how to set up the Snappy libraries so that the DP CLI can process Hive tables with Snappy compression.
• Changing Hive table properties
  This topic describes how to change the value of the skipAutoProvisioning property in a Hive table.