diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 14a504fc385..3ec9e50bff0 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -384,6 +384,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
 
   BUG FIXES
 
+    HADOOP-7630. hadoop-metrics2.properties should have a property *.period 
+    set to a default value for metrics. (Eric Yang via mattf)
+
     HADOOP-7327. FileSystem.listStatus() throws NullPointerException instead of
     IOException upon access permission failure. (mattf)
 
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-conf.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-conf.sh
index 8e903cf308d..96a989fc39f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-conf.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-conf.sh
@@ -475,7 +475,10 @@ else
   template_generator ${HADOOP_PREFIX}/share/hadoop/common/templates/conf/taskcontroller.cfg ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/taskcontroller.cfg
   template_generator ${HADOOP_PREFIX}/share/hadoop/common/templates/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/hadoop-metrics2.properties
   if [ ! -e ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/capacity-scheduler.xml ]; then
-    template_generator ${HADOOP_PREFIX}/share/hadoop/templates/conf/capacity-scheduler.xml ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/capacity-scheduler.xml
+    template_generator ${HADOOP_PREFIX}/share/hadoop/common/templates/conf/capacity-scheduler.xml ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/capacity-scheduler.xml
+  fi
+  if [ ! -e ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/hadoop-metrics2.properties ]; then
+    cp ${HADOOP_PREFIX}/share/hadoop/common/templates/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/hadoop-metrics2.properties
   fi
   if [ ! -e ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/log4j.properties ]; then
     cp ${HADOOP_PREFIX}/share/hadoop/common/templates/conf/log4j.properties ${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/log4j.properties
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4a1019385c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/hadoop-metrics2.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# syntax: [prefix].[source|sink|jmx].[instance].[options]
+# See package.html for org.apache.hadoop.metrics2 for details
+
+*.period=60
+