Configuring your MiNiFi Java Agent

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

If you want to configure your agent, use the conf/bootstrap.conf configuration file.

The MiNiFi Java Agent creates an auto-generated minifi.properties file at every startup. You should not use it for general agent configuration. If you want to override any property set in minifi.properties, you can do it by adding it to the end of the bootstrap.conf file.

For example, to change the content repository location, add the following to bootsrap.conf:

nifi.content.repository.directory.default=[***/path/to/repos/content***]

Follow these steps to configure the MiNiFi Java Agent:

From the MiNiFi home directory, open the bootstrap.conf configuration file.
Configure the agent class so that you can logically group MiNiFi Java instances according to their functionality.
```
c2.agent.class=[***AGENT_CLASS***]
```
note
Leading and trailing whitespaces are accepted for Agent Class names so consider this when configuring agents.
Configure the ID of the agent. 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 the .
```
c2.enable=true
```

Configure your server endpoint.

c2.rest.path.base=[***REST API_BASE URL***]
c2.rest.path.heartbeat=[***HEARTBEAT_RELATIVE URL***]
c2.rest.path.acknowledge=[***ACKNOWLEDGE ENDPOINT_RELATIVE URL***]

For example:

c2.rest.path.base=http://localhost:10090/efm/api
c2.rest.path.heartbeat=/c2-protocol/heartbeat
c2.rest.path.acknowledge=/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 the C2 runtime properties.

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

Configure the C2 request header type.

c2.rest.http.headers=Accept:application/json

Restart the agent.