Hi Mohit, The avro-client sends a file that you specify (run "flume help" to see see the options) in avro format/protocol to the host and port you specify. For example, you could setup a Flume NG avro source (specifying an avro source in your config file with a logger sink), and then run your avro-client against the flume node, looking at the logger output to confirm that the events are coming through.
Cheers, Will On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[email protected]>wrote: > I got the package compiled. Going through the getting started guide, > what's the difference between flume node and flume avro-client? I see one > line description but don't understand when to run one over other? > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Will McQueen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Mohit, >> >> You might want to start with the Flume NG Getting Started guide at: >> https://cwiki.apache.org/FLUME/getting-started.html >> >> We also have an architecture doc at: >> https://blogs.apache.org/flume/entry/flume_ng_architecture >> >> Cheers, >> Will >> >> Cheers, >> Will >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Mohit Anchlia <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I am new to Flume. I am looking at Flume NG and HDFS as sink for it. I >>> am just trying to do basic testing to understand how it works. Some basic >>> questions I have is that do I need to also install flume on the client >>> machine, for eg web servers? >>> >>> Also, if for some reason server slows down or network connection breaks >>> then does Flume client picks up the data from where it stopped writing? >>> Wondering how that works >>> >> >> >
