Access the Big Data Cloud Console

The Big Data Cloud Console (also referred to as the cluster console in this document), is used to create, terminate, monitor, and manage Apache Spark jobs; create and manage notes and notebooks; browse Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and Cloud storage; and manage work queue configurations.

After administrators create a cluster, they give users the information they need to connect to the cluster console. Administrators also provide information about the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic container associated with the cluster when the cluster was created. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic is the persistent data lake for Big Data Cloud and is typically where the data used for analysis is stored. Job logs are also stored there.

The cluster console can be accessed in several different ways, depending on whether you have administrator privileges, and whether the cluster uses Basic authentication or uses Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) for authentication.

Access the Big Data Cloud Console — Administrators

To access the cluster as an administrator:

Open the service console. See Access the Service Console for Big Data Cloud.
From the menu for the cluster you want to access, select Big Data Cloud Console and log in with the appropriate credentials:
- For clusters that use HTTP Basic authentication, log in with the administrative user name and password specified for the cluster when the cluster was created.
- For clusters that use IDCS for authentication, log in with your existing IDCS user name and password. When IDCS is enabled as the authentication mechanism for a cluster, anyone who can authenticate to IDCS can log in and access all cluster services.

After the cluster console opens, make note of the URL. This is the URL you’ll provide to users who need to access the cluster. The URL and connection information differ depending on whether the cluster uses Basic authentication or IDCS for authentication.

For clusters that use Basic authentication, provide users with the cluster URL and with the credentials specified for the cluster when the cluster was created. The URL is in the form of https://address:1080/, where address is the public IP address of the MASTER-1 node on the cluster. Note that the console can be accessed on port 1080 on all master nodes in a cluster. If you can't access the console on the MASTER-1 node, try accessing it on another master node.

For clusters that use IDCS for authentication, provide users with just the cluster URL. The URL is in the form of https://cluster_name-load_balancing_server_URI, where cluster_name is the name of the cluster, and load_balancing_server_URI is the URI assigned to the cluster by the load balancing service. Because authentication is managed by IDCS, you won’t send a user name and password. Users will log in to the cluster using their own IDCS credentials, which should have already been provisioned before you send the cluster URL. For information about adding users, see Add Identity Cloud Service Users for Clusters.

For both cluster types, also provide users with the URL and credentials for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic container that was associated with the cluster when the cluster was created.

Access the Big Data Cloud Console — Cluster Users

To access the cluster if you are not an administrator:

Obtain the information you need from your administrator:
- For clusters that use Basic authentication, the administrator will give you the cluster URL and the user name and password for the cluster.
- For clusters that use IDCS for authentication, the administrator will give you just the cluster URL. An administrator should have already added you as a user in IDCS, and you should have received an email with your IDCS login information. You’ll log in with your IDCS user name and password.
Access the cluster URL in your browser and log in when prompted:
- For clusters that use Basic authentication, you’re presented with a basic login dialog. Log in with the user name and password provided by your administrator.
- For clusters that use IDCS for authentication, you’re presented with the Identity Cloud Service login screen. Log in with your IDCS user name and password. All that’s required to access an IDCS-enabled cluster is a valid IDCS account.
The Big Data Cloud Console opens.

Administrators should also give you the URL and credentials for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic container associated with the cluster when the cluster was created.