Configuring your MiNiFi Java agent

After you install the MiNiFi Java agent, you need to update the configuration files.

If you are configuring a MiNiFi Java agent, the configuration file is conf/bootstrap.conf.

From the MiNiFi home directory, open the configuration file.
Configure the Agent Class so that you can logically group MiNiFi Java instances according to their functionality. Specify the agent class:
```
c2.agent.class={AGENT_CLASS}
```
Configure the Agent ID. If you do not specify an Agent ID, MiNiFi generates a unique ID per agent instance.
```
c2.agent.identifier={AGENT_ID}
```
Set the c2.enable property to true to inform MiNiFi that run time flow instructions will be received from EFM.
```
c2.enable=true
```

Configure your EFM server endpoint:

c2.rest.url=http://{EFM_SERVER_IP}:10090/efm/api/c2-protocol/heartbeat
c2.rest.url.ack=http://{EFM_SERVER_IP}:10090/efm/api/c2-protocol/acknowledge

Configure your heartbeat interval:

c2.agent.heartbeat.period={HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL}

Configure the config directory to be used by MiNiFi:
```
c2.config.directory=./conf
```

Configure C2 runtime properties:

c2.runtime.manifest.identifier=minifi
c2.runtime.type=minifi-java

Configure MiNiFi to recognise the changes in the config.yml file during publishing:

nifi.minifi.notifier.ingestors=org.apache.nifi.minifi.bootstrap.configuration.ingestors.FileChangeIngestor
nifi.minifi.notifier.ingestors.file.config.path=./conf/config-new.yml
nifi.minifi.notifier.ingestors.file.polling.period.seconds=5