https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/how-to-get-files-from-SFTP-to-HDFS/m-p/215772#M177682 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/48397/ravikirandasari1.html" nodeid="48397">@Ravikiran Dasari</A>, You can of course install NiFi as an extra service, just as anything else. You are not locked to only packages HDP provides. You just lose the advantage of using Ambari to monitor and configure it. Feel free to read over the NiFi installation documentation, if you want to use it. </P><P>Or you can install HDF services (such as NiFi) <A href="https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDF3/HDF-3.0.0/bk_installing-hdf-on-hdp/content/upgrading_ambari.html">to your existing HDP cluster</A>. </P><P>If you want to use Flume, it seems there is an <A href="https://github.com/keedio/flume-ftp-source">external FTP source</A>, however, I personally don't know to install or configure it</P><P>Also see <A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/150882/ftp-files-to-hdfs.html" target="_blank">https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/150882/ftp-files-to-hdfs.html</A></P> Thu, 07 Dec 2017 04:25:50 GMT JordanMoore 2017-12-07T04:25:50Z