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: