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 > >
