This readme defines the Command and control configuration options that work with Apache NiFi. All options defined are located in minifi.properties.
Apache NiFi MiNiFi C++ can communicates with a C2 Server via HTTP REST protocol. The protocol delivers a C2 response the server, expecting requests in a heartbeat response. The protocol transforms the C2 messages into a protocol specific representation. The internal representation is an AST therefore you must define the root classes, which configure the classes that branch from the root. You can define arbitrary nodes and sub-trees, but this isn't necessary and only advantageous for custom C2 servers. That will be explained in greater detail in the metrics section.
For more more insight into the API used within the C2 agent, please visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MINIFI/C2+Design+Proposal
Release 0.6.0: Please note that all c2 properties now exist as nifi.c2.*. If your configuration properties
files contain the former naming convention of c2.*, we will continue to support that as
an alternate key, but you are encouraged to switch your configuration options as soon as possible.
Note: In release 0.8.0 there is a configuration option to minimize the heartbeat payload size by excluding agent manifest. For that, add "nifi.c2.full.heartbeat"=false property. With this change, heartbeat with agent manifest included is sent only for the first time then falls back to sending light weight heartbeat. If for some reason the C2 server does not receive the first full heartbeat, the manifest can be requested via C2 DESCRIBE manifest command.
#in minifi.properties
# Disable/Enable C2
nifi.c2.enable=true
# specify which sections the heartbeat message should contain
# DeviceInfoNode: basic info about the system (OS, number of cores etc)
# AgentInformation: info about the MiNiFi agent, may include the manifest
# FlowInformation: information about the current flow, including queue sizes
# AssetInformation: the state of the asset directory managed by the agent
# ConfigurationChecksums: hashes of the configuration files; can be used to detect unexpected modifications
# the default is
nifi.c2.root.classes=DeviceInfoNode,AgentInformation,FlowInformation,AssetInformation
# control c2 heartbeat interval
nifi.c2.agent.heartbeat.period=30 sec
# enable reporter classes
nifi.c2.agent.heartbeat.reporter.classes=RESTReceiver
# If RESTReceiver is configured its listener port and optional SSL certificate can also be configured
nifi.c2.rest.listener.port=<port>
nifi.c2.rest.listener.cacert=<SSL Cert path>
# specify the rest URIs if using RESTSender
nifi.c2.rest.path.base=https://<your-c2-server>/<c2-api-path>
# specify either absolute url or relative to the nifi.c2.rest.path.base url for hearbeat and acknowledge
nifi.c2.rest.url=/c2-protocol/heartbeat
nifi.c2.rest.url.ack=/c2-protocol/acknowledge
nifi.c2.flow.base.url=http://<your-c2-server>/<c2-api-path>/c2-protocol/
# c2 agent identifier -- must be defined to run agent
nifi.c2.agent.identifier=<your identifier>
# c2 agent class -- must be defined to run agent
nifi.c2.agent.class=<your agent class>
# configure SSL Context service for REST Protocol
#nifi.c2.rest.ssl.context.service
# specify encoding strategy for c2 requests (gzip, none)
#nifi.c2.rest.request.encoding=none
# minimize REST heartbeat updates
#nifi.c2.rest.heartbeat.minimize.updates=true
Flow id and URL are usually retrieved from the C2 server. These identify the last updated flow version and where the flow was downloaded from. These properties are persisted in the minifi.properties file.
# in minifi.properties
nifi.c2.flow.id=8da5de7f-dcdb-4f6b-aa2f-6f162a7f9dc4
nifi.c2.flow.url=http://localhost:10090/c2-server/api/flows/8da5de7f-dcdb-4f6b-aa2f-6f162a7f9dc4/content?aid=efmtest
It is possible to set a persistent fallback agent id. This is needed so that the C2 server can identify the same agent after a restart, even if nifi.c2.agent.identifier is not specified.
# in minifi.properties
nifi.c2.agent.identifier.fallback=my_fallback_id
Command and Control metrics can be used to send metrics through the heartbeat or via the DESCRIBE operation. Since responses are formed in an AST, metrics can be formed as a sub tree. Metrics classes are defined apriori and may reference a metrics class specific to a processor. The following example describes a configuration of an agent
# in minifi.properties
nifi.c2.root.class.definitions=metrics
nifi.c2.root.class.definitions.metrics.name=metrics
nifi.c2.root.class.definitions.metrics.metrics=runtimemetrics,loadmetrics,processorMetrics
nifi.c2.root.class.definitions.metrics.metrics.runtimemetrics.name=RuntimeMetrics
nifi.c2.root.class.definitions.metrics.metrics.runtimemetrics.classes=DeviceInfoNode,FlowInformation
nifi.c2.root.class.definitions.metrics.metrics.loadmetrics.name=LoadMetrics
nifi.c2.root.class.definitions.metrics.metrics.loadmetrics.classes=QueueMetrics,RepositoryMetrics
nifi.c2.root.class.definitions.metrics.metrics.processorMetrics.name=ProcessorMetric
nifi.c2.root.class.definitions.metrics.metrics.processorMetrics.classes=GetFileMetrics
Processor metrics can also be configured using regular expressions with the processorMetrics/ prefix, so the following definition is also valid:
nifi.c2.root.class.definitions.metrics.metrics.processorMetrics.classes=processorMetrics/Get.*Metrics
This example shows a metrics sub tree defined by the option 'nifi.c2.root.class.definitions'.
This is a comma separated list of all sub trees. In the example, above, only one sub tree exists: metrics.
The options below metrics define the sub-trees within metrics: typedmetrics and processorMetrics. Each of these has a name. The classes sub option will define the metrics classes that are placed within this sub-tree. For the RESTProtocol, the above configuration produces the following JSON:
"metrics": {
"RuntimeMetrics": {
"deviceInfo": {
"systemInfo": {
"cpuLoadAverage": 2.59521484375,
"cpuUtilization": 0.1188118811881188,
"machineArch": "x86_64",
"memoryUsage": 13103550464,
"operatingSystem": "Linux",
"physicalMem": 67024097280,
"vCores": 12
},
"networkInfo": {
"hostname": "ggyimesi-5540-ubuntu",
"ipAddress": "192.168.50.181"
},
"identifier": "13396751919892753964"
},
"flowInfo": {
"versionedFlowSnapshotURI": {
"bucketId": "default",
"flowId": "8db40550-db5d-11ec-95d7-0433c2c9832b"
},
"queues": {
"2438e3c8-015a-1000-79ca-83af40ec1997": {
"dataSize": 0,
"dataSizeMax": 1048576,
"name": "GetFile/success/LogAttribute",
"size": 0,
"sizeMax": 0,
"uuid": "2438e3c8-015a-1000-79ca-83af40ec1997"
}
},
"components": {
"FlowController": {
"running": true,
"uuid": "2438e3c8-015a-1000-79ca-83af40ec1990"
},
"GetFile": {
"running": false,
"uuid": "2438e3c8-015a-1000-79ca-83af40ec1991"
},
"LogAttribute": {
"running": true,
"uuid": "2438e3c8-015a-1000-79ca-83af40ec1992"
}
},
"flowId": "8db40550-db5d-11ec-95d7-0433c2c9832b"
}
},
"LoadMetrics": {
"QueueMetrics": {
"GetFile/success/LogAttribute": {
"datasize": "0",
"datasizemax": "1048576",
"queued": "0",
"queuedmax": "0"
}
},
"RepositoryMetrics": {
"ff": {
"full": false,
"running": false,
"size": "0"
},
"repo_name": {
"full": false,
"running": true,
"size": "0"
}
}
},
"ProcessorMetrics": {
"GetFileMetrics": {
"2438e3c8-015a-1000-79ca-83af40ec1991": {
"AcceptedFiles": 0,
"InputBytes": 0,
"OnTriggerInvocations": 0
}
}
}
}
Updates to MiNiFi C++ properties can be controlled through an UpdatePolicyControllerService named C2UpdatePolicy. The service supports several configuration options. They are defined in the following example:
Controller Services:
- id: 94491a38-015a-1000-0000-000000000001
name: C2UpdatePolicy
class: UpdatePolicyControllerService
Properties:
# true enables all properties to be updated.
Allow All Properties: true
# allowed properties are those which can be updated
Allowed Properties:
- value: Property_1
- value: Property_2
Disallowed Properties:
- value: Property_3
- value: Property_4
C2 Triggers can be activated to perform some C2 activity via a local event. Currently only FileUpdateTrigger exists, which monitors for C2 File triggers to update the flow configuration. Classes can be defined as a comma separated list of classes to load via the option nifi.c2.agent.trigger.classes
C2 updates can be triggered with updates to a flow configuration file. It doesn't have to be the same base configuration file. It will be copied into place. A new property, nifi.c2.file.watch, can be placed into minifi.properties to monitor. If the update time changes while the agent is running, it will be copied into place of the file defined by nifi.flow.configuration.file. The agent will then be restarted with the new flow configuration. If a failure occurs in reading that file or it is an invalid YAML file, the update process will be halted.
in minifi.properties to activate the file update trigger specify
# specifying a trigger
nifi.c2.agent.trigger.classes=FileUpdateTrigger
nifi.c2.file.watch=<full path of file to monitor>