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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:18:01 -0500
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Subject: Re: Managing flows
From: Joe Witt <joe.witt@gmail.com>
To: users@nifi.apache.org
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You got it.  Everything we're doing is about showing context so
visualizing different/disconnected flows together is part of that
story.  You can abstract them away in different process groups and
organize them in many different ways.  You will often find over time
all these seemingly disconnected linear flows have a way of growing
together and forming a true graph.

Thanks
Joe

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Darren Govoni <darren@ontrenet.com> wrote:
> Thanks Joe.
>
> And it seems all the different flows would be seen on the one canvas, just
> not connected?
>
>
> On 11/11/2015 10:02 AM, Joe Witt wrote:
>>
>> Darren,
>>
>> A single NiFi instance (on one node or a cluster of 10+) can handle
>> *many* different flows.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Joe
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Darren Govoni <darren@ontrenet.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Mark,
>>>     Thanks for the tips. Appreciate it.
>>>
>>> So when I run nifi on a single server. It is essentially "one flow"?
>>> If I wanted to have say 2 or 3 active flows, I would (reasonably) have to
>>> run more instances of nifi with appropriate
>>> configuration to not conflict. Is that right?
>>>
>>> Darren
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/11/2015 09:54 AM, Mark Petronic wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Look in your Nifi conf directory. The active flow is there as an aptly
>>>> named .gz file. Guessing you could just rename that and restart Nifi
>>>> which would create a blank new one. Build up another flow, then you
>>>> could repeat the same "copy to new file name" and restore some other
>>>> one to continue on some previous flow/. I'm pretty new to Nifi, too,
>>>> so maybe there is another way. Also, you can create point-in-time
>>>> backups of your from from the "Settings" dialog in the DFM. There is a
>>>> link that shows up in there to click. It will copy your master flow gz
>>>> to your conf/archive directory. You can create multiple snapshots of
>>>> your flow to retain change history. I actually gunzip my backups and
>>>> commit them to Git for a more formal change history tracking
>>>> mechanism.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Darren Govoni <darren@ontrenet.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi again,
>>>>>      Sorry for the noob questions. I am reading all the online material
>>>>> as
>>>>> much as possible.
>>>>> But what hasn't jumped out at me yet is how flows are managed?
>>>>>
>>>>> Are they saved, loaded, etc? I access my nifi and build a flow. Now I
>>>>> want
>>>>> to save it and work on another flow.
>>>>> Lastly, will the flow be running even if I exit the webapp?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks for any tips. If I missed something obvious, regrets.
>>>>>
>>>>> D
>>>
>>>
>