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Hi,
I have a Cloudera Hadoop Cluster with Kerberos Authentication. I want to do DirectQuery on Impala(preferred)/Hive.
Can anyone share the details if anyone has successfully established connectivity between Power BI and Impala?
Currently, I get error SSL authentication failed. I have a certificate file but I could not find an option to specify its value anywhere.
Is there any other way to establish DirectQuery Connectivity between Impala/Hive and Power BI maybe by using some other connector?
Would really appreciate any pointers.
Thanks.
Hi @Anonymous ,
Has your problem been solved?
Best regards,
Lionel Chen
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Hi Lionel,
Thanks for your reply.
I had a few queries.
The solution is using Impala Connector. And our Impala server is using kerberos authentication with a certificate but there is no option to specify that with Impala Connector. So I was wondering if I am missing anything?
Hi @Anonymous ,
I found a post with the same problem, please refer to the solution.
Unable to Connect Power BI to Impala connector
Best regards,
Lionel Chen
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Hi @Anonymous ,
Maybe you can use the Impala connector of Power BI Desktop directly.
Connect to an Impala database in Power BI Desktop
Best regards,
Lionel Chen
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Hi @v-lionel-msft ,
When I am using the Impala Connector of Power BI Desktop it gives below error.
So wanted to check how the community is connecting to Impala.
@Anonymous , make sure you have installed the SSL certificate. refer these stesp
Hi Amit,
Thanks for your inputs but it didn't work.
I have a .pem file which we are using for Authentication in ODBC DSN connection to Cloudera Impala.
But as I mentioned I am looking for Direct Query connectivity to Cloudera Impala/Hive.
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