ISSUE
What is the optimal way to shut down a HDP slave node
SOLUTION
HDP slave nodes are usually configured to run the datanode and tasktracker processes. If HBase is installed, then the slave nodes run the HBase RegionServer process as well.
To shut down the slave node, it is important to shut down the slave processes first. Each process should be shut down by the respective user account. These are the commands to run:
Stop Hbase RegionServer:
su hbase - -c "hbase-daemon.sh --config /etc/hbase/ stop regionserver"
Stop tasktracker:
su mapred - -c "hadoop-daemon.sh --config /etc/hadoop/ stop tasktracker"
Stop datanode:
su hdfs - -c "hadoop-daemon.sh --config /etc/hadoop/ stop datanode"