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Flume 1.3.1 Windows binary release online

By Anonymous
Andy Blozhou, a Chinese Flume enthusiast provide precompiled Windows binaries of Flume-1.3.1, including a startup bat and Avro bat.
You can grap this build on their website http://abloz.com/flume/windows_download.html :

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This is the flume-ng 1.3.1 windows version for download.
apache-flume-1.3.1-bin.zip 

simple usage:
unzip the apache-flume-1.3.1-bin.zip
run bin/flume.bat for agent. 
run bin/flume-avroclient.bat for avro-client. 
Need modify for your own env. 
detail:
(To compile flume-ng on windows, please reference http://mapredit.blogspot.com/2012/07/run-flume-13x-on-windows.html or my chinese version http://abloz.com/2013/02/18/compile-under-windows-flume-1-3-1.html)

1.download the windows version of flume 1.3.1 file apache-flume-1.3.1-bin.zip from http://abloz.com/flume/windows_download.html
2.unzip the apache-flume-1.3.1-bin.zip to a directory.
3.install jdk 1.6 from oracle,and set JAVA_HOME of the env.
download from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
4.test agent:
4.1 modify settings of conf/console.conf,conf/hdfs.conf for agent test.
4.2 test source syslog, sink: console out agent
4.2.1 check flume.bat,modify the variables to your env.
4.2.2 click flume.bat
4.2.3 on another computer run command:
echo "<13>test msg" >/tmp/msg
nc -v your_flume_sysloghost port < /tmp/msg
4.2.4 check your syslog host flume output
4.2.5 samples see http://abloz.com/2013/02/18/compile-under-windows-flume-1-3-1.html
4.3 test avro-client
4.3.1 run a avro source flume agent on a node.
4.3.2 modify flume-avroclient.bat and head.txt
4.3.3 run flume-avroclient.bat

tested on windows7 32bit version

enjoy!
Andy
2013.2.20
http://abloz.com
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