Implementing an e-mail action job using Oozie

In this recipe, we are going to take a look at how to use an e-mail action in order to notify users about job executions in Oozie.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you should have a running Hadoop cluster as well as the latest version of Oozie installed on it.

How to do it...

An Oozie job execution consists of two important things, workflow.xml and a properties file. The workflow.xml file is where we need to specify the flow of execution. The following is an example of workflow.xml, which uses the e-mail action:

<workflow-app xmlns="uri:oozie:workflow:0.2" name="pig-wf"> <start to="notify"/> <action name="notify"> <email xmlns="uri:oozie:email-action:0.1"> <to>a@.b.com</to> <cc>b@b.com</cc> <subject>Email ...

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