Created 02-15-2017 11:25 AM
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
Created 02-15-2017 07:04 PM
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.
Created 02-15-2017 06:10 PM
@Tomas Safarik I havent tried it but you can look into procrun. http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-daemon/procrun.html
Created 02-15-2017 07:04 PM
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.
Created 06-26-2017 05:56 PM
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"
Created 06-29-2017 02:04 AM
@Saikrishna Tarapareddy Thanks for the solution, can this be done for a Production windows server? or just Proof of concept?
Created 06-29-2017 04:07 PM
This can be done in a PROD server also.
Created 06-29-2017 06:24 PM
Thanks a lot @Saikrishna Tarapareddy, helps a lot!
Created 07-26-2017 02:32 AM
@Saikrishna Tarapareddy how did you did it in production? is it clustered or standalone?
Created 07-26-2017 06:39 PM
@mel mendoza additonally you can use https://nssm.cc/usage (NSSM). Or change settings in windows follow these links
Created 07-31-2017 12:49 AM
did you manage to configure your nifi in production? can it be done in cluster?
I manage to configure nifi standalone and task scheduler.
Created 04-10-2019 05:44 PM
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
Created 02-01-2020 08:36 AM
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.