Step-by-Step Guide to Installing and Configuring Apache Flume on a Cluster

1. Software download

wget http://mirror.bit.edu.cn/apache/flume/1.6.0/apache-flume-1.6.0-bin.tar.gz

tar zxvf apache-flume-1.6.0-bin.tar.gz

2. Cluster environment

Master: 172.16.11.97 Slave1: 172.16.11.98 Slave2: 172.16.11.99

3. NetCat source configuration (conf/flume-netcat.conf)

vim conf/flume-netcat.conf

# Name the components on this agent agent.sources = r1 agent.sinks = k1 agent.channels = c1 # Source configuration agent.sources.r1.type = netcat agent.sources.r1.bind = 127.0.0.1 agent.sources.r1.port = 44444 # Sink configuration agent.sinks.k1.type = logger # Channel configuration agent.channels.c1.type = memory agent.channels.c1.capacity = 1000 agent.channels.c1.transactionCapacity = 100 # Bind source and sink to the channel agent.sources.r1.channels = c1 agent.sinks.k1.channel = c1

Verification:

bin/flume-ng agent --conf conf --conf-file conf/flume-netcat.conf --name=agent -Dflume.root.logger=INFO,console

telnet master 44444

4. Exec source configuration (conf/flume-exec.conf)

vim conf/flume-exec.conf

# Name the components on this agent agent.sources = r1 agent.sinks = k1 agent.channels = c1 # Source configuration agent.sources.r1.type = exec agent.sources.r1.command = tail -f /data/hadoop/flume/test.txt # Sink configuration agent.sinks.k1.type = logger # Channel configuration agent.channels.c1.type = memory agent.channels.c1.capacity = 1000 agent.channels.c1.transactionCapacity = 100 # Bind source and sink to the channel agent.sources.r1.channels = c1 agent.sinks.k1.channel = c1

Verification:

bin/flume-ng agent --conf conf --conf-file conf/flume-exec.conf --name=agent -Dflume.root.logger=INFO,console

while true; do echo `date` >> /data/hadoop/flume/test.txt ; sleep 1; done

5. Avro source configuration (conf/flume-avro.conf)

vim conf/flume-avro.conf

# Define a memory channel agent.channels.c1.type = memory # Define Avro source agent.sources.r1.type = avro agent.sources.r1.bind = 127.0.0.1 agent.sources.r1.port = 44444 agent.sources.r1.channels = c1 # Define HDFS sink agent.sinks.k1.type = hdfs agent.sinks.k1.channel = c1 agent.sinks.k1.hdfs.path = hdfs://master:9000/flume_data_pool agent.sinks.k1.hdfs.filePrefix = events- agent.sinks.k1.hdfs.fileType = DataStream agent.sinks.k1.hdfs.writeFormat = Text agent.sinks.k1.hdfs.rollSize = 0 agent.sinks.k1.hdfs.rollCount = 600000 agent.sinks.k1.hdfs.rollInterval = 600 # Bind components agent.sources = r1 agent.sinks = k1 agent.channels = c1

Verification:

bin/flume-ng agent --conf conf --conf-file conf/flume-avro.conf --name=agent -Dflume.root.logger=DEBUG,console

telnet master 44444