There are a series of flag files we create in the metron home directory to assist with managing state on restarts. Look there for any flag files pertaining to Kafka/parsers. Deleting the file will inform Ambari to reinstall.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:38 AM Meenakshi.S < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Stefan , > > > > I reinstalled from the step1 via ambari. It is like a fresh installation > of metron . When I installed previously I was able to see the syslog topic > but now after my fresh installation this topic was missing . I just wanted > to know I missed anything during the installation > > > > Regards, > > Meenakshi > > > > *From:* Stefan Kupstaitis-Dunkler [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 28 March 2019 16:42 > *To:* [email protected]; [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Syslog5424 topic missing in kafka > > > > Hi Meenakshi, > > > > When you say re-install I assume for my answer that you also installed new > Kafka brokers (correct me if I'm wrong). > > > > Did you create the syslog5424 topic in your first cluster? If not it > probably was created automatically when you tried to read from/write to it. > > > > Generally it's better to create your Kafka topics manually to ensure it > has the number of partitions you need and the number of replicas you want. > > > > Best, > > Stefan > > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:46 AM Meenakshi.S < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi , > > Due to some node issues I have to reinstall metron. Now I am not able to > find the topic syslog5424 in the list of kafka topics . > > Any idea how to get the missing topic . > > > > Regards, > > Meenakshi > > > > > -- > > Stefan Kupstaitis-Dunkler > > https://datahovel.com/ > > https://twitter.com/StefanDunkler >
