https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Configuring-an-external-Zookeeper-to-work-with-NiFi-stand/m-p/191498#M153579 <P><A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/203349/configuring-an-external-zookeeper-to-work-with-nif.html#">@Matt Clarke</A></P><P>This did not work either. First I couldn't use zk-provider in two places as id. It is already used in cluster-provider. I changed that as follows:</P><PRE>&lt;local-provider&gt; &lt;id&gt;local-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:2181&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;/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:2181&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>The error I get is as follow:</P><PRE>java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot use Local State Provider (org.apache.nifi.controller.state.providers.zookeeper.ZooKeeperStateProvider) as it only supports scope(s) {CLUSTER} but instance is configured to use scope LOCAL at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.doGetObjectFromFactoryBean(FactoryBeanRegistrySupport.java:175) &lt;br&gt;</PRE> Fri, 20 Jul 2018 01:32:38 GMT prachisharma432 2018-07-20T01:32:38Z