Flume configuration file overview
Now that we've downloaded Flume, let's spend some time going over how to configure an agent.
A Flume agent's default configuration provider uses a simple Java property file of key/value pairs that you pass as an argument to the agent upon startup. Since you can configure more than one agent in a single file, you will need to additionally pass an agent identifier (called a name) so it knows which configurations to use. In my examples where I'm only specifying one agent I'm going to use the name agent.
Each agent is configured starting with three parameters:
agent.sources=<list of sources> agent.channels=<list of channels> agent.sinks=<list of sinks>
Each source, channel, and sink also has a unique name within the context ...
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