Nifi mounting 300+ windows shared folder

[#1]

use case:

1. NiFi was installed in Linux

2. The only way to access data from windows is via shared folder.

Question:

1. Is it best practise to mount all 300+ to my nifi server (standalone or clustered)?

2. What other solution to support all 300+ windows shared dir?

[#2]

Have you considered installing Java MiNiFi on the windows server and using it to execute the necessary local flows to collect the data, then push it to NiFi via a SiteToSite connection? Opening one port for MiNiFi to S2S back to NiFi would be a lot easier than maintaining 300 sharemounts via Samba.

[#3]

Hi Dan,

I can not make any adjustment to the windows server, would you recommend that i put the nifi in windows for production?

[#4 · Accepted solution]

For our requirements, we implement nifi on windows servers vs nifi on linux server. No need to manage mount points.