Hello I want to use a nifi processor to retrieve files from a windows share. I have set the Directory property with the value \\ServerName\SharedFolder but the processor says the directory doesn't exist. Is there a specific format to insert windows share in this property? I have granted "Everyone" read/write permissions on this shared folder. Please advise Thanks Ahmad ... View more

Hello I am trying to use the PutHDFS processor to push files into my hadoop cluster. I have a folder called CF in the root of my HDFS to which i want to push these files through the nifi processor. What should i put in the Directory property of the nifi processor? I was advised i should put the fully qualified path of my folder. If the CF folder is in the root of HDFS, what would my fully qualified path be? Thanks ... View more

Hello How can i uninstall lucidworks-hdpsearch on a centos 7 machine? i want to have a new clean installation. Thanks Ahmad ... View more

Hello What is the best approach to index a folder in HDFS containing documents (pdfs, emails, word, excel, etc..). This folder gets updated on a daily basis. Its size is two terabytes. Should i write code to loop over files, extract content through tika parser and push them to solr index using solrj maybe? What about the new documents? Or is there a better approach to bulk insert all the content of this folder into my solr index and update my solr index everyday? What about apache nifi? Which approach should i follow? Thanks ... View more

Hello I am installing a cluster composed of 9 Servers. 4 Data nodes, 3 master nodes, 1 kafka node and 1 edge node. I have reached step 5 in my cluster installation (Assign masters). How should i distribute the services? Should my kafka server only host the kafka broker service? what about my edge server, what should it host? should the rest of the services be evenly distributed across my 3 master nodes? Please advise Regards ... View more

Hello i am installing ambari with a custom JDK, when i enter the java home path i am getting the following error. ERROR: Exiting with exit code 1. REASON: Downloading or installing JDK failed: 'Fatal exception: Java home path or java binary file is unavailable. Please put correct path to java home., exit code 1'. Exiting. I have already installed java and exported the java_home variable and updated the path variable [root@DB-HDP-Ambari bin]# echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin:/opt/jdk1.8.0_91/bin:/opt/jdk1.8.0_91/jre/bin ... View more