[YARN-3144] Configuration for making delegation token failures to timeline server not-fatal

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.7.0
• Target Version/s: 2.7.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jonathan Turner Eagles
• Reporter: Jonathan Turner Eagles
• Created: 04/Feb/15 23:26
• Updated: 10/Apr/15 20:10
• Resolved: 06/Feb/15 20:56

Description

Posting events to the timeline server is best-effort. However, getting the delegation tokens from the timeline server will kill the job. This patch adds a configuration to make get delegation token operations "best-effort".