[FLUME-3225] How does flume determine logical node names?

• Type: Question
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.4
• Fix Version/s: notrack
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bryon Burleigh
• Created: 15/Mar/18 22:31
• Updated: 05/Nov/18 10:41
• Resolved: 19/Mar/18 18:43

Description

I am having some problems with a flume agent. When it starts up, I see this in the log:

INFO com.cloudera.flume.agent.LogicalNodeManager: creating new logical node localhost

 

On other hosts, I see this line in the log on startup, but instead of "localhost" it has the actual hostname of the machine.

 

From what I can tell, the configuration files are identical across the different machines.

 

Where does flume get this value from? How can I replace "localhost" with the correct value? Maybe my google-fu is weak, but I was unable to find this info on my own.