Time for action – capturing a remote file in a local flat file

Let's show another example of capturing data to a file sink. This time we will use another Flume capability that allows it to receive data from a remote client.

  1. Create the following file as agent3.conf in the Flume working directory:
    agent3.sources = avrosource agent3.sinks = filesink agent3.channels = jdbcchannel agent3.sources.avrosource.type = avro agent3.sources.avrosource.bind = localhost agent3.sources.avrosource.port = 4000 agent3.sources.avrosource.threads = 5 agent3.sinks.filesink.type = FILE_ROLL agent3.sinks.filesink.sink.directory = /home/hadoop/flume/files agent3.sinks.filesink.sink.rollInterval = 0 agent3.channels.jdbcchannel.type = jdbc agent3.sources.avrosource.channels ...

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