[MAPREDUCE-1185] URL to JT webconsole for running job and job history should be the same

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Component/s: jobtracker
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed

Release Note

If the running job is retired, then Job url is redirected to the history page. To construct the history url, JobTracker maintains the mapping of job id to history file names. The entries from mapping is purged for jobs older than mapreduce.jobtracker.jobhistory.maxage configured value.

• Assignee: Amareshwari Sriramadasu
• Reporter: Sharad Agarwal
• Created: 05/Nov/09 07:55
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 21:19
• Resolved: 07/Dec/09 06:19

Description

The tracking url for running jobs and the jobs which are retired is different. This creates problem for clients which caches the job running url because soon it becomes invalid when job is retired.