Prerequisites

To send messages from AxoSyslog to HDFS, complete the following steps.

Steps:

1. If you want to use the Java-based modules of AxoSyslog (for example, the Elasticsearch, HDFS, or Kafka destinations), you must compile AxoSyslog with Java support.

   • Download and install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), 1.7 (or newer). You can use OpenJDK or Oracle JDK, other implementations are not tested.

   • Install gradle version 2.2.1 or newer.

   • Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the libjvm.so file, for example:LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/server:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

     Note that many platforms have a simplified links for Java libraries. Use the simplified path if available. If you use a startup script to start AxoSyslog set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in the script as well.

   • If you are behind an HTTP proxy, create a gradle.properties under the modules/java-modules/ directory. Set the proxy parameters in the file. For details, see The Gradle User Guide.

2. Download the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) libraries (version 2.x) from http://hadoop.apache.org/releases.html.

3. Extract the HDFS libraries into a temporary directory, then collect the various .jar files into a single directory (for example, /opt/hadoop/lib/) where AxoSyslog can access them. You must specify this directory in the AxoSyslog configuration file. The files are located in the various lib directories under the share/ directory of the Hadoop release package. (For example, in Hadoop 2.7, required files are common/hadoop-common-2.7.0.jar, common/libs/\*.jar, hdfs/hadoop-hdfs-2.7.0.jar, hdfs/lib/\*, but this may change between Hadoop releases, so it is easier to copy every .jar file into a single directory.