The following snippet shows some of the kinds of properties that can be set using the properties file. For more detailed information, see the “Flume User Guide”.
agent.sources = pstream agent.channels = memoryChannel agent.channels.memoryChannel.type = memory agent.sources.pstream.channels = memoryChannel agent.sources.pstream.type = exec agent.sources.pstream.command = tail -f /etc/passwd agent.sinks = hdfsSink agent.sinks.hdfsSink.type = hdfs agent.sinks.hdfsSink.channel = memoryChannel agent.sinks.hdfsSink.hdfs.path = hdfs://hdp/user/root/flumetest agent.sinks.hdfsSink.hdfs.fileType = SequenceFile agent.sinks.hdfsSink.hdfs.writeFormat = Text
The source here is defined as an exec source, the agent runs a given command on start-up which streams data to stdout, where the source gets it. In this case, the command is a Python test script. The channel is defined as an in-memory channel and the sink is an HDFS sink.
