https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Configuring-an-external-Zookeeper-to-work-with-NiFi-stand/m-p/191497#M153578 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/53264/prachisharma4326.html" nodeid="53264">@Prachi Sharma</A> </P><P>-</P><P>*** Forum tip: Please try to avoid responding to an Answer by starting a new answer. Instead use the "add comment" tp respond to en existing answer. There is no guaranteed order to different answers which can make following a response thread difficult especially when multiple people are trying to assist you.</P><P>-</P><P>Please try creating a new "local-provider" rather then pointing at the "cluster-provider".</P><P>Comment out the following:</P><PRE> &lt;!-- &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;/var/lib/nifi/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; --&gt;</PRE><P>Then add the following new "local-provider":</P><PRE>&lt;local-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;propertyname="Connect String"&gt;myhostname:myport&lt;/property&gt; &lt;propertyname="Root Node"&gt;/nifi&lt;/property&gt; &lt;propertyname="Session Timeout"&gt;10 seconds&lt;/property&gt; &lt;propertyname="Access Control"&gt;Open&lt;/property&gt; &lt;/local-provider&gt; </PRE><P>-</P><P>Then change <A href="http://nifi.state.management.provider.local/">nifi.state.management.provider.local</A>= in the nifi.properties file so it points back at "local-provider"</P><P>-</P><P>Thank you,</P><P>Matt</P> Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:24:20 GMT MattWho 2018-07-20T00:24:20Z