On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Mayur Gupta <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have two questions related to failover in Flume. > > 1) If the source is not accepting events because of a failure condition, > is there a failover mechanism in Flume other configuring 2 agents to listen > to the events, in which I will get duplicates. > What is the source (not Flume Source) of Events? What happens to the Events if the Flume Source fails? > > 2) I configured a sink processor for failover with 2 sinks, one logger and > another HDFS. If the HDFS sink starts failing (say HDFS is no longer up), > the events are not processed by logger sink. Is this excepted behavior. Is > the failover only works with 2 avro sinks and not in the manner I have > configured? > IMHO, this should not be the case. Anything in the logs? > > I will appreciate it if somebody can point me in the right direction. > > -Mayur > -- thanks ashish Blog: http://www.ashishpaliwal.com/blog My Photo Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/ashishpaliwal
