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To identify whether a node is active or standby, you can use below command

Also below commands can be used

To print out the namenodes use this command: hdfs getconf -namenodes

To print out the secondary namenodes: hdfs getconf -secondaryNameNodes

To print out the backup namenodes: hdfs getconf -backupNodes

automatic failover is configured in 2.x 

Automatic failover adds two new components to an HDFS deployment: a ZooKeeper quorum, and the ZKFailoverController process (abbreviated as ZKFC).

Failure detection - each of the NameNode machines in the cluster maintains a persistent session in ZooKeeper. If the machine crashes, the ZooKeeper session will expire, notifying the other NameNode that a failover should be triggered.

Active NameNode election - ZooKeeper provides a simple mechanism to exclusively elect a node as active. If the current active NameNode crashes, another node may take a special exclusive lock in ZooKeeper indicating that it should become the next active.

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