How to run Apache Nifi on Windows as a Service

[#1]

Hello,

is there some recommended or tested way how to run Apache Nifi as a Windows Service?

All I can find is:

"Currently, installing NiFi as a service is supported only for Linux and Mac OS X users."

https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/getting-started.html#installing-as-a-service

I would like to have Apache Nifi running in a way that will automatically start on Windows Server when OS starts and shutdown on OS suhtdown. Having this as a standard system service would be nice but not necessary.

Thanks,

Tomas

[#2]

@Tomas Safarik I havent tried it but you can look into procrun. http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/procrun.html

[#3 · Accepted solution]

Thanks, I am checking available service wrappers and procrun seemed old to me. So far I decided to try http://nssm.cc/ . I was looking for some tested or official solution, but I guess there is none.

[#4]

To fix the issue I created a Task to Run NiFi in windows task scheduler , and selected the option to "Run whether user is logged on or not"

[#5]

@Saikrishna Tarapareddy Thanks for the solution, can this be done for a Production windows server? or just Proof of concept?

[#6]

This can be done in a PROD server also.

[#7]

Thanks a lot @Saikrishna Tarapareddy, helps a lot!

[#8]

@Saikrishna Tarapareddy how did you did it in production? is it clustered or standalone?

[#9]

@mel mendoza additonally you can use https://nssm.cc/usage (NSSM). Or change settings in windows follow these links

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553

https://serverfault.com/questions/734035/running-a-batch-file-from-task-scheduler-without-user-being...

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc748993(v=ws.11).aspx#BKMK_winui

[#10]

@dhieru singh

did you manage to configure your nifi in production? can it be done in cluster?

I manage to configure nifi standalone and task scheduler.

[#11]

https://github.com/mikenac/nifi-windowsservice

https://commons.apache.org/daemon/procrun.html

https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/

I haven't used the above for NiFi but used win-scheduler. (commons daemon was easy to add to mina sshd so probably easy for NiFi too)

using windows scheduler works also

gpedit.msc - add stop script

another option may be

download MSI for NiFi. open it in 7zip. Extract the powershell scripts for setting up the windows service.

from here http://public-repo-1.hortonworks.com/HDF/windows/3.x/updates/3.1.0.0/nifi-3.1.0.0-564.msi

You can also download NiFi from here https://www.cloudera.com/downloads/hdf.html

[#12]

Hello,

did you make this work? Is it possible to run the Nifi as a service on Windows in some way? Please give us more detailed information about it, if you succeeded...

Can't apps like AlwaysUp or JSL work? Java Service Wrappers...

Thanks.