Downloading and installing CEM

You download and install the Cloudera Edge Management (CEM) software to start working with it. To install CEM, you need to install Edge Flow Manager (EFM) and MiNiFi agents.

Download the software

The download location of CEM software bits is https://www.cloudera.com/downloads.html.

For more information about how to obtain the CEM software bits, see Obtaining the CEM Software.

Install CEM

You should install Java 8 on the machine on which you will install the EFM Server, NiFi Registry, and each machine onto which you will install a MiNiFi Java agent.

To install EFM and use it, you need to perform the following steps:
  1. Install database.
  2. Install NiFi Registry.
  3. Download the EFM server binaries.
  4. Install EFM server.
  5. Configure EFM server.
  6. Open network ports.
  7. Start EFM server.

For details on how to install EFM server, see Installing the EFM Server.

To install MiNiFi agents and use it, you need to perform the following steps:
  1. Install your MiNiFi agents.
  2. Configure your MiNiFi agents.
  3. Start MiNiFi agents.

For details on how to install, configure, and start MiNiFi agents, see Install the MiNiFi Agents.

For detailed system requirements, and supported processors for MiNiFi Java and C++ agents, see Support Matrix.