https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Configuring-an-external-Zookeeper-to-work-with-NiFi-stand/m-p/191496#M153577 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/525/mclarke.html" nodeid="525">@Matt Clarke</A> </P><P>Hello, just wanted to update that this did not work. I changed the state-provider for <A href="http://nifi.state.management.provider.local/">nifi.state.management.provider.local</A> to zk-provider in nifi.properties file. Then I updated the state-management.xml file with the ZK properties.</P><P>nifi.properties change is below:</P><PRE># The ID of the local state provider nifi.state.management.provider.local=zk-provider # The ID of the cluster-wide state provider. This will be ignored if NiFi is not clustered but must be populated if running in a cluster. nifi.state.management.provider.cluster=zk-provider </PRE> <PRE>&lt;local-provider&gt; &lt;id&gt;local-provider&lt;/id&gt; &lt;class&gt;org.apache.nifi.controller.state.providers.local.WriteAheadLocalStateProvider&lt;/class&gt; &lt;property name="Directory"&gt;./state/local&lt;/property&gt; &lt;property name="Always Sync"&gt;false&lt;/property&gt; &lt;property name="Partitions"&gt;16&lt;/property&gt; &lt;property name="Checkpoint Interval"&gt;2 mins&lt;/property&gt; &lt;/local-provider&gt; &lt;cluster-provider&gt; &lt;id&gt;zk-provider&lt;/id&gt; &lt;class&gt;org.apache.nifi.controller.state.providers.zookeeper.ZooKeeperStateProvider&lt;/class&gt; &lt;property name="Connect String"&gt;myhostname:myport&lt;/property&gt; &lt;property name="Root Node"&gt;/nifi&lt;/property&gt; &lt;property name="Session Timeout"&gt;10 seconds&lt;/property&gt; &lt;property name="Access Control"&gt;Open&lt;/property&gt; &lt;/cluster-provider&gt;</PRE><P>I have the correct hostname and port for zk-provider above in state-management.xml, I just have removed the entries in the post.</P><P>Question: Should be changing the root node?</P><P>Here is the error I am getting:</P><PRE>Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'flowService': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'flowController': FactoryBean threw exception on object creation; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot create Local State Provider because the 'nifi.state.management.provider.local' property in the NiFi Properties file is set to 'zk-provider', but this id is assigned to a cluster-provider entry in the State Management Configuration File (/etc/nifi/state-management.xml), rather than a local-provider entry Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot create Local State Provider because the 'nifi.state.management.provider.local' property in the NiFi Properties file is set to 'zk-provider', but this id is assigned to a cluster-provider entry in the State Management Configuration File (/etc/nifi/state-management.xml), rather than a local-provider entry at org.apache.nifi.controller.state.manager.StandardStateManagerProvider.createStateProvider(StandardStateManagerProvider.java:157) at org.apache.nifi.controller.state.manager.StandardStateManagerProvider.createLocalStateProvider(StandardStateManagerProvider.java:87) at org.apache.nifi.controller.state.manager.StandardStateManagerProvider.create(StandardStateManagerProvider.java:73) at org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.&lt;init&gt;(FlowController.java:507) at org.apache.nifi.controller.FlowController.createStandaloneInstance(FlowController.java:409) at org.apache.nifi.spring.FlowControllerFactoryBean.getObject(FlowControllerFactoryBean.java:77) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:168) ... 45 common frames omitted 2018-07-19 15:26:03,674 INFO [Thread-1] org.apache.nifi.NiFi Initiating shutdown of Jetty web server... 2018-07-19 15:26:03,821 INFO [Thread-1] o.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractConnector Stopped ServerConnector@1ffe7c42{HTTP/1.1,[http/1.1]}{hdf-lab-0:8080} 2018-07-19 15:26:03,822 INFO [Thread-1] org.eclipse.jetty.server.session Stopped scavenging Received trapped signal, beginning shutdown...</PRE><P>Is there other property settings I should use?</P><P>I would like to make NiFi work with containers.</P><P>Thanks.</P> Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:39:02 GMT prachisharma432 2018-07-19T22:39:02Z