Jeff,
Would if be feasible for you use UpdateAttribute (which I believe is part
of MiNiFi core processors) and use the ${hostname(true)} Expression
language function?
More about it can be found here:
https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/expression-language-guide.html#hostname
Cheers
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:39 AM, Jeff Zemerick <jzemer...@apache.org>
wrote:
> When processing data in NiFi that was received via MiNiFi edge devices I
> need to be able to identify the source of the data. All of the data on the
> edge devices will be pulled from a database and will not contain any data
> that self-identifies the source. My attempt to solve this was to write a
> processor that reads a configuration file on the edge device to get its
> device ID and put that ID as an attribute in the flowfile. This appears to
> work, but, I was wondering if there is a more recommended approach?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
