Scalable Harvest – Harvest Client Installation

Harvest Client Installation and Configuration

This document describes installation and configuration of Harvest Client.

Installation

Download latest binary release (ZIP file) and extract it to some directory, such as /opt/big-data-harvest-client-1.0.0

Running

Run harvest-client in bin directory without any parameters to print usage information.

/opt/big-data-harvest-client-1.0.0/bin/harvest-client

Usage: harvest-client <command> <options>

Commands:
  harvest         Submit new harvest job
  -V, --version   Print Harvest Client version

Optional parameters:
  -v <value>   Log verbosity: DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR. Default is INFO.
  -help        Pass -help after any command to see command-specific usage information, for example,
               harvest-client harvest -help

Configuration

Example configuration file is located in the installation directory, (/conf/harvest-client.cfg). The following parameters are available.

Message Broker Parameters

Parameter	Description
mq.type	Message broker type. Currently only "RabbitMQ" is supported. We can add more types in future releases.
rmq.host	RabbitMQ "host:port" tuples (one tuple per line). For example, "localhost:5672".
rmq.user	RabbitMQ user. For example, "harvest".
rmq.password	RabbitMQ password. For example, "harvest1234".