Get Apache Flume 1.3.x running on Windows

Since we found an increasing interest in the flume community to get Apache Flume running on Windows systems again, I spent some time to figure out how we can reach that. Finally, the good news - Apache Flume runs on Windows. You need some tweaks to get them running.

Prerequisites
Build system:
maven 3x, git, jdk1.6.x, WinRAR (or similar program)

Apache Flume agent:
jdk1.6.x, WinRAR (or similar program), Ultraedit++ or similar texteditor

Tweak the Windows build box
1. Download and install JDK 1.6x from Oracle
2. Set the environment variables
   => Start - type "env" into the search box, select "Edit system environment variables", click Environment Variables, Select "New" from the "Systems variables" box, type "JAVA_HOME" into "variable name" and the path to your JDK installation into "Variable value" (Example: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_33)
3. Download maven from Apache
4. Set the environment variables
   => from the field "System variables" select New, Variable name "M2_HOME", value Path to your maven installation (Example: D:\Maven\apache-maven-3.0.4)
   => from the field "User variables for (your username)" select New, Variable name "M2", value "%M2_HOME%\bin"
   => from the field "User variables for (your username)" select New, Variable name "MAVEN_OPTS", value "-XX:MaxPermSize=1024M"
5. Close the CMD if you have running one
6. Download and install msysgit or use a similar program


Build
Start git and clone flume's git repo to the local harddisk. I created a Source directory on my secondary HDD (D:) and cloned the repo into. Change into the previous checkout'd directory and start to build your Apache Flume installation with maven.
D:\Source\flume>mvn clean
D:\Source\flume>mvn package -DskipTests


You'll see a lot of noise, but after some minutes you get the success:
[INFO] Apache Flume ...................................... SUCCESS [39.780s]
[INFO] Flume NG SDK ...................................... SUCCESS [3.510s]
[INFO] Flume NG Configuration ............................ SUCCESS [1.825s]
[INFO] Flume NG Core ..................................... SUCCESS [3.853s]
[INFO] Flume NG Sinks .................................... SUCCESS [0.874s]
[INFO] Flume NG HDFS Sink ................................ SUCCESS [2.652s]
[INFO] Flume NG IRC Sink ................................. SUCCESS [1.310s]
[INFO] Flume NG HBase Sink ............................... SUCCESS [2.527s]
[INFO] Flume NG Channels ................................. SUCCESS [0.796s]
[INFO] Flume NG JDBC channel ............................. SUCCESS [2.168s]
[INFO] Flume NG Node ..................................... SUCCESS [2.481s]
[INFO] Flume NG file-based channel ....................... SUCCESS [2.371s]
[INFO] Flume NG file backed Memory channel ............... SUCCESS [2.075s]
[INFO] Flume legacy Sources .............................. SUCCESS [0.733s]
[INFO] Flume legacy Avro source .......................... SUCCESS [1.778s]
[INFO] Flume legacy Thrift Source ........................ SUCCESS [1.903s]
[INFO] Flume NG Clients .................................. SUCCESS [0.702s]
[INFO] Flume NG Log4j Appender ........................... SUCCESS [1.498s]
[INFO] Flume NG distribution ............................. SUCCESS [14.477s]
[INFO] Flume NG Integration Tests ........................ SUCCESS [1.529s]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1:29.310s
[INFO] Finished at: Mon Jul 02 09:19:11 CEST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 195M/844M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------


As usual, the build you'll find in flume-ng-dist\target\:
02.07.2012  09:19        14.161.677 flume-ng-dist-1.3.0-SNAPSHOT-dist.tar.gz
02.07.2012  09:19           467.362 flume-ng-dist-1.3.0-SNAPSHOT-src.tar.gz
Now grab the *dist.tar.gz and extract them on a Windows server of your choice. I used WinRar for.

Running Flume
Create a config file (I used the one I posted on my Linux related build post) and created the file with Ultraedit++. Why? The included Windows editor save files with Windows LF at the end, and that will hurt Flume. 

You've to edit the log4j.properties file too, simple change the logger facility from 
flume.root.logger=INFO,LOGFILE
into
flume.root.logger=DEBUG,CONSOLE

Start Flume:
D:\flume\flume-1.3.0-SNAPSHOT>"c:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_33\bin\java.exe" -Xmx20m -Dlog4j.configuration=file:///%CD%\conf\log4j.properties -cp "d:\flume\flume-1.3.0-SNAPSHOT\lib\*" org.apache.flume.node.Application -f d:\flume\flume-1.3.0-SNAPSHOT\conf\test1.conf -n syslog-agent
Explanation:
Path to java.exe + Java related options + log4j config in Windows Uri style + Flume libs + application + config

Tip: tweak the path to match your installation

You'll see:
.. a lot of DEBUG noise ..
2012-07-02 11:30:54,823 (conf-file-poller-0) [INFO - org.apache.flume.node.nodemanager.DefaultLogicalNodeManager.startAllComponents(DefaultLogicalNodeManager.java:126)] Starting Sink Console
2012-07-02 11:30:54,825 (conf-file-poller-0) [INFO - org.apache.flume.node.nodemanager.DefaultLogicalNodeManager.startAllComponents(DefaultLogicalNodeManager.java:137)] Starting Source Syslog
2012-07-02 11:30:54,828 (SinkRunner-PollingRunner-DefaultSinkProcessor) [DEBUG - org.apache.flume.SinkRunner$PollingRunner.run(SinkRunner.java:143)] Polling sink runner starting
2012-07-02 11:31:24,829 (conf-file-poller-0) [DEBUG - org.apache.flume.conf.file.AbstractFileConfigurationProvider$FileWatcherRunnable.run(AbstractFileConfigurationProvider.java:188)] Checking file:d:\flume\flume-1.3.0-SNAPSHOT\conf\test1.conf for changes
                                                                                                       
Now fire up a syslog message from a compatible system:
echo "<13>Jun 20 12:12:12 host foo[345]: a syslog message" > /tmp/foo
nc -v WINDOWS SERVER 5140 < /tmp/foo

Tip: Replace WINDOWS SERVER with the server IP of your Windows box

On the Windows Box you'll see:
2012-07-02 11:36:38,114 (SinkRunner-PollingRunner-DefaultSinkProcessor) [INFO - org.apache.flume.sink.LoggerSink.process (LoggerSink.java:70)] Event: { headers:{timestamp=1340187132000, Severity=5, host=host, Facility=8} body: 66 6F 6F 5B 33 34 35 5D 3A 20 61 20 73 79 73 6C foo[345]: a sysl }

Summary
I've only tested a syslog flow. Special flows like Apache HBase won't run, since Apache HBase isn't running on Windows (yet). I think Avro will run too, as well as exec sinks. That open a real wide field for Apache Flume's integration into BI solutions or mass eventlog debugging.
For your tracking, the link to the corresponding Jira (FLUME-1335), I think I will write a better Windows service integration in a short time period. Add you as an watcher, so we can create good Karma for the improvement.

Comments

  1. Thank you very much for this post. I have been able to follow your instructions to get the avro-client functionality working on a Server 2008 host, using the latest 1.4.0 snapshot.

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  2. thank you,alo.
    I'm now following your step to build a windows version flume-ng.
    I'm looking forward for your Windows service version.

    my blog:http://abloz.com
    Andy

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  3. hi,
    how to run avro-client on windows?
    it saids that it does not support -H and -p parameters.

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    1. I have known the answer:
      open a bat file,the command is like:
      "D:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_24\bin\java.exe" -Xmx60m -Dlog4j.configuration=file:///D:\apache-flume-1.3.1-bin\conf\log4j.properties -cp "D:\apache-flume-1.3.1-bin\lib\*" org.apache.flume.client.avro.AvroCLIClient -H Hadoop48 -p 5140 -F "E:\mydoc\gamelog\20130204 655game.log" --headerFile D:\apache-flume-1.3.1-bin\conf\header.txt

      my blog: http://abloz.com

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  4. Thanks, great work.

    I got an error by building the package.

    "Failed to execute goal org.apache.rat:apache-rat-plugin:0.7:check (test.rat) on project flume-parent: Too many unapproved licenses: 1 -> [Help 1]"

    Problem solved by using:
    "mvn package -DskipTests -Drat.numUnapprovedLicenses=100"

    Here you can find further information about the problem:
    Thanks, great work.

    I got an error by building the package.

    "Failed to execute goal org.apache.rat:apache-rat-plugin:0.7:check (test.rat) on project flume-parent: Too many unapproved licenses: 1 -> [Help 1]"

    Problem solved by using:
    "mvn package -DskipTests -Drat.numUnapprovedLicenses=100"

    Here you can find further information about the problem:
    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-1372 (fixed Link)

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    1. Anonymous23 July, 2013

      Yes, the licenses are a issue, and the steps you've done are perfect. Thanks for sharing with the readers!

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  5. I tried this, but I am getting an error unrecognized option -f

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  6. Anonymous23 July, 2013

    Which version do you use? 1.3 or 1.4? Since I blog not regularly I look not so often into the comments. But we have a excellent community, so I'd encourage you to join us and ask there: http://flume.apache.org/mailinglists.html

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