Individual Port Transmission

There are times when the DFM may want to either enable or disable transmission for only a specific port within the Remote Process Group. This can be accomplished by right-clicking on the Remote Process Group and choosing the "Manage remote ports" menu item. This provides a configuration dialog from which ports can be configured:

The left-hand side lists all of the Input Ports that the remote instance of NiFi allows data to be sent to. The right-hand side lists all of the Output Ports from which this instance is able to pull data. If the remote instance is using secure communications (the URL of the NiFi instance begins with https://, rather than http://), any ports that the remote instance has not made available to this instance will not be shown.

Note

If a port that is expected to be shown is not shown in this dialog, ensure that the instance has proper permissions and that the Remote Process Group's flow is current. This can be checked by closing the Remote Process Group Ports dialog and looking at the bottom-left corner of the Remote Process Group. The date and time when the flow was last refreshed is displayed. If the flow appears to be outdated, it can be updated by right-clicking on the Remote Process Group and selecting "Refresh remote". (See Anatomy of a Remote Process Group for more information).

Each port is shown with its Name, its Description, configured number of Concurrent Tasks, and whether or not data sent to this port will be Compressed. Additionally, the port's configured Batch Settings (Count, Size and Duration) are displayed. To the left of this information is a toggle switch to turn the port on or off. Ports that have no connections attached to them are grayed out:

The on/off toggle switch provides a mechanism to enable and disable transmission for each port in the Remote Process Group independently. Those ports that are connected but are not currently transmitting can be configured by clicking the pencil icon () below the on/off toggle switch. Clicking this icon will allow the DFM to change the number of Concurrent Tasks, whether or not compression should be used when transmitting data to or from this port, and Batch Settings.

For an Input Port, the batch settings control how NiFi sends data to the remote input port in a transaction. NiFi will transfer flow files, as they are queued in incoming relationships, until any of the limits (Count, Size, Duration) is met. If none of the settings are configured, a 500 milliseconds batch duration is used by default.

For an Output Port, the batch settings tells the remote NiFi how NiFi prefers to receive data from the remote output port in a transaction. The remote NiFi will use the specified settings (Count, Size, Duration) to control the transfer of flow files. If none of the settings are configured, a 5 seconds batch duration is used by default.