In an namenode HA enabled hadoop cluster, one of the namenodes will be active and the other will be standby. If you want to perform some operations on HDFS programmatically, some of the the libraries or packages need the details of active namenode (some of the packages in python need the details of active namenode, they will not support the nameservice). In this case, the easiest way to get the status is to issue a GET request similar to the one given below on each of the namenodes. This will help us to identify the status of each namenode.

GET REQUEST

curl 'http://namenode.1.host:50070/jmx?qry=Hadoop:service=NameNode,name=NameNodeStatus'

SAMPLE OUTPUT

{
"beans" : [ {
"name" : "Hadoop:service=NameNode,name=NameNodeStatus",
"modelerType" : "org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode",
"State" : "active",
"SecurityEnabled" : false,
"NNRole" : "NameNode",
"HostAndPort" : "namenode.1.host:8020",
"LastHATransitionTime" : 0
} ]
}
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