title: How to run HBase shell against a remote cluster
body: <p>I'm running HBase in pseudo-distributed mode on my workstation.  We also have HBase running on  a cluster.  Using the HBase shell, I'd like to access the HBase instance that's running on the cluster from my workstation.  I would like to do this without logging into one of the cluster machines.  </p>
  
  <p>With Hadoop, you can run jobs on a remote cluster by specifying the -conf parameter and supplying an alternate version of hadoop-site.xml.  Is there an equivalent for the HBase shell?</p>
  
  <p>I'm running cloudera cdh3u3 on my workstation and on the cluster machines.</p>