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How to run nifi without web UI ?

24_robard — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:15:56 GMT

Hi !

I would like to run nifi without having to use the web UI. I saw that it is possible to run nifi via the APIs (https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/36226/can-i-use-nifi-without-any-web-ui.html), but how to use it ? (or where to learn to use it?)

Is there an other way to run nifi witout the UI (usnig bash shell for example) ?

Re: How to run nifi without web UI ?

pvillard — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:10:08 GMT

@François Robard,

You will find the whole REST API documentation here :

https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/rest-api/index.html

By using the endpoints provided in the documentation, you can control NiFi in a scripted-manner using 'curl' (for example).

Re: How to run nifi without web UI ?

andrewg — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 20:01:26 GMT

I wonder if you're looking for MiNiFi?https://nifi.apache.org/minifi/index.html

Re: How to run nifi without web UI ?

24_robard — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:50:05 GMT

Ok, thanks for your answers.

@Pierre Villard, I'll Watch about the REST API.

@Andrew Grande, otherwise I'm not sure I've understood the goal of Minifi.

What I exacty want to do is :

- Set Nifi through the web UI on a PC to do a certain task

-Export both Nifi and this preset in a file

-Install and make Nifi and this preset run on an other computer/server without having to use the web UI (or maybe install Nifi, import my Template and lunch it without the UI)

Is this kind of thing possible?

Re: How to run nifi without web UI ?

alopresto — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 01:48:40 GMT

That is literally the use case for MiNiFi. MiNiFi runs with far fewer resources necessary and no UI, but can accept flows designed using the NiFi UI on the same or separate machine.

Re: How to run nifi without web UI ?

24_robard — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:34:42 GMT

Thanks, I tried Minifi and could do what I wanted. 🙂

Re: How to run nifi without web UI ?

24_robard — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:37:19 GMT

Yes I finally noticed yhat. I tried it and it works exactly as I wanted 🙂