Was this issue ever resolved. I'm using HDP. Everything works fine except SQL. I get this error.
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Hive configuration:
Could not open client transport with JDBC Uri: jdbc:hive2://xxx:xxx/;: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
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There are no logs. so, hard to tell where error is coming from.
Also, the cluster I'm connecting to has knox. not sure if that's potentially an issue.