I have configured flume to read logs file and write to HDFS. When I start the flume the log files are read but it not written to HDFS. flume.log has the warning message - could not configure sink - no channel configured for sink but I already assigned a channel to sink in the conf-file.
Given below is the conf-file and error message:
File: spool-to-hdfs.properties
# List all components.
agent1.sources = source1
agent1.sinks = sink1
agent1.channels = channel1
# Describe source.
agent1.sources.source1.type = spooldir
agent1.sources.source1.spoolDir =/Suriya/flume/input_files
# Describe channel
#agent1.channels.channel1.type = file
#agent1.channels.channel1.checkpointDir = /Suriya/flume/checkpointDir
#agent1.channels.channel1.dataDirs =/Suriya/flume/dataDirs
agent1.channels.channel1.type = memory
# Describe sink
agent1.sinks.sink1.type = hdfs
#agent1.sinks.sink1.hdfs.path = hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/hdfs/Suriya/flume
agent1.sinks.sink1.hdfs.path = hdfs://localhost/hdfs/Suriya/flume
agent1.sinks.sink1.hdfs.fileType= DataStream
agent1.sinks.sink1.hdfs.writeFormat = Text
# Bind source and sink to channel
agent1.sources.source1.channels = channel1
agent1.sinks.sink1.channels = channel1
**-- starting the agent**
flume-ng agent --conf-file spool-to-hdfs.properties --conf /etc/flume/conf --name agent1;
flume.log
03 Aug 2015 23:37:16,699 WARN [conf-file-poller-0] (org.apache.flume.conf.FlumeConfiguration$AgentConfiguration.validateSinks:697) - Could not configure sink sink1 due to: No channel configured for sink: sink1
org.apache.flume.conf.ConfigurationException: No channel configured for sink: sink1 at org.apache.flume.conf.sink.SinkConfiguration.configure(SinkConfiguration.java:51)
Replace the bind part with.
# Bind source and sink to channel
agent1.sources.source1.channels = channel1
agent1.sinks.sink1.channels = channel1
This bind config
# Bind source and sink to channel
agent1.sources.source1.channels = channel1
agent1.sinks.sink1.channel = channel1
agent1.sources.source1.channels = channel1
Looks okay
BUT
agent1.sinks.sink1.channels = channel1
Should be
agent1.sinks.sink1.channel = channel1
Let us know how it goes.