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Table of Contents
Table of Contents..................................................................................................... 3
1. Introduction........................................................................................................... 5
1.1The Flume Protocol and Software .............................................................. 5
1.2 Flume Setup Diagram ................................................................................. 5
1.3 Support .......................................................................................................... 6
2. Requirements....................................................................................................... 7
2.1 Flume hardware requirements .................................................................. 7
Virtual Machines............................................................................................. 7
CPU load and usage ..................................................................................... 7
2.2 Flume operating system requirements ..................................................... 7
2.3 Additional Software/ Configuration Needed / Recommended ......... 8
3.Installation ............................................................................................................. 9
3.1 General ......................................................................................................... 9
3.2 Installation ..................................................................................................... 9
3.3 Installing without root privileges .............................................................. 10
3.4 Installing The Flume License File............................................................... 10
Local license files.......................................................................................... 11
Served license files ....................................................................................... 11
3.5 The Configuration File ............................................................................... 12
4. Configuration File Parameters .......................................................................... 15
4.1 cipherSpec.............................................................................................. 15
4.2 compressionLevel .................................................................................. 15
4.3 compressionStrategy ............................................................................. 15
4.4 flexlmLicenseDirectory .......................................................................... 16
4.5 DF .............................................................................................................. 16
4.6 excludeFiles............................................................................................. 16
4.7 excludeDirs.............................................................................................. 16
4.8 includeFiles .............................................................................................. 16
4.9 includeDirs ............................................................................................... 16
4.10 localInterfaceIp.................................................................................... 17
4.11 logDirectory .......................................................................................... 17
4.12 MTU ......................................................................................................... 18
4.13 portsFileName....................................................................................... 18
4.14 restartCountDefault ............................................................................. 19
4.15 runDirectory .......................................................................................... 19
4.16 speedMaximum ................................................................................... 19
4.17 uploadSpeedMaximum ...................................................................... 20
4.18 sshFileName .......................................................................................... 21
4.19 summonMethod................................................................................... 21
4.20 summonPortDefault ............................................................................. 23
4.21 summonTimeoutThreshold .................................................................. 23
4.22 targetErrorBasisPoints ........................................................................... 23
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