Using Flume

IMPORTANT This component is deprecated. Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends using an alternate product. Deprecated components are either in maintenance or have reached the end of their maintenance lifecycle. For more information, see Discontinued Ecosystem Components.

Start a Flume Agent

You can start a Flume agent with the following command:
 /opt/mapr/flume/flume-<version>/bin/flume-ng agent --conf-file <path to conf file> -name <agent name>
NOTE To send debugging output to the console, add the flag -Dflume.root.logger=DEBUG,console. To send debugging output to a log file, add the flag -Dflume.root.logger=DEBUG,LOGFILE. You can configure the location of this logfile in the flume-<version>/conf/log4j.properties file.

Additional Documentation

You can also refer to the following documents available on the Apache Flume website: