Running a cygnus-twitter agent
Once the agent_<id>.conf
file is properly configured, just use the following command to start:
${FLUME_HOME}/bin/cygnus-flume-ng agent --conf ${CYGNUS_CONF_PATH} -f agent_<id>.conf -n cygnus-twitter -Dflume.root.logger=${CYGNUS_LOG_LEVEL},${CYGNUS_LOG_APPENDER} -Duser.timezone=UTC
Where <id>
is the suffix at the end of the agent_<id>.conf
files you used to configure the instance.
The parameters used in these commands are:
agent
. This is the type of application to be run by thecygnus-flume-ng
script.--conf
. Points to the Apache Flume configuration folder.-f
(or--conf-file
). This is the agent configuration (agent_<id>.conf
) file. Please observe when running in this mode nocygnus_instance_<id>.conf
file is required.-n
(or--name
). The name of the Cygnus agent to be run.-Dflume.root.logger
. Changes the logging level and the logging appender for log4j.-Duser.timezone=UTC
. Changes the timezone in order all the timestamps (logs, data reception times, etc) are UTC.