Martin, It seems like you got your connection directions inverted?
Are you connecting to the telnet server on port 8000 to consume the API or are you exposing a service on port 8000 on your host and the API connects to it? Cheers On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:52 AM, Martin Monsalvo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to determine how to approach this. > > I have a data source that broadcasts packets via telnet on a certain port. > > e.g > mytelnet.mydomain.net 8000 > > Once I connect through telnet it will prompt for my user name like so: > > Please enter your user name: > > Once you enter your username you start receiving the data one record per > line. > > So far I have been able to process this data stream like so: > > I open a telnet connection on my machine. I route the packets to a file > and I use the TailFile processor to read the incoming packets that get > appended to that file. > > Then I process each line and send it to a Cassandra cluster. > > I wonder how can I directly connect to the Telnet source from Nifi, to > avoid having to flush to a log file and using the TailFile processor as > intermediate steps. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > > Martin >
