Chandrashekhar,  

Is there a specific reason you cannot use Flume NG. I believe that has already 
been suggested on this thread. Flume OG is no longer actively developed, and it 
is better to move to Flume NG - which had its second release a few weeks back - 
Flume v 1.2.0. 


Thanks
Hari

-- 
Hari Shreedharan


On Tuesday, August 7, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Chandrashekhar Shaw wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I was testing flume for log transfer in DFO mode. I was firing the single 
> shot command as cron every 10th minute from the agent box. So the flume 
> process starts every 10 minutes sends the logs to collector box and ends.
> 
> It was pushing the logs very well. To test the reliability I stopped the 
> collector and brought it back after 1 hour, what I see is
> 
> * The flume process (started by the agent cron) kept on running in the agent 
> machine and not able to transfer the rest of the file to collector.
> * The process did not end even after 5/6 hours. (I had to manually kill it).
> 
> As I know flume agent should continue sending the log once the collector is 
> re-started. ???
> Is there something I am missing ??
> 
> Thanks
> Chandrashekhar Shaw
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 24, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Harish Mandala wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Not too sure about Flume OG - I barely used it for a week before shifting to 
> NG. Would there be any particular reason you are using OG?
> 
> Yes, you can take a look at SyslogTcpSource (in NG), 
> https://people.apache.org/~mpercy/flume/flume-1.2.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT/docs/apidocs/org/apache/flume/source/SyslogTcpSource.html
> 
> This can be modified according to this Netty example (for asynchronous large 
> file streaming) : 
> http://static.netty.io/3.5/xref/org/jboss/netty/example/http/file/package-summary.html
> 
> This is pretty much what I did when I needed a Flume HTTP source to match my 
> requirements.
> 
> Regards,
> Harish
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:02 AM, Chandrashekhar Shaw 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I am using Flume - OG 
> https://github.com/downloads/cloudera/flume/flume-distribution-0.9.4-bin.tar.gz
>  .
> 
> It there an available version which implements netty??
> 
> Thanks
> Chandrashekhar Shaw
> 
> 
> On Jul 23, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Harish Mandala wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Which one of the sources are you using? Maybe a flume source that
> implements something like
> http://docs.jboss.org/netty/3.2/xref/org/jboss/netty could be useful.
> 
> Regards,
> Harish
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Chandrashekhar Shaw
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using flume for transferring logs from 20 agent boxes to 1 collector
> box. The file size which I am trying to transfer is of about 1 GB per hour.
> So every hour my agents run to transfer the log file generated during the
> last hour.
> I am using DFO sink for file transfer.
> 
> But then I am facing following problems:
> 
> 1) Some of the agents are not able to transfer the whole file even in one
> hour and the processes run continuously for hours.
> 2) Some of the agents stop within 5-6 minutes without sending the file
> completely.
> 
> I want to know
> 
> 1) if somebody else has faced the same issues?
> 2) What could be the problem?
> 
> Thanks
> Chandrashekhar Shaw
> 
> 


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