Setting Up a Profile
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Profiler Configuration Settings

The Profiler is installed during the Hortonworks Cybersecurity Platform (HCP) installation and runs as an independent Storm topology. The configuration for the Profiler topology is stored in ZooKeeper at /metron/topology/profiler. These properties also exist in the default installation of HCP at $METRON_HOME/config/zookeeper/profiler.json. The profiler values can be changed on disk and then uploaded to ZooKeeper using $METRON_HOME/bin/zk_load_configs.sh.

You might need to work with your Platform Engineer to modify or tune the Profiler values.

Settings. Description
profiler.workers The number of worker processes to create for the topology.
profiler.executors The number of executors to spawn per component.
profiler.input.topic The name of the Kafka topic from which to consume data.
profiler.output.topic The name of the Kafka topic to which profile data is written. Only used with profiles that use the triage result field.
profiler.period.duration The duration of each profile period. This value should be define along with profiler.period.duration.units.
profiler.period.duration.units The units used to specify the profile period duration. This value should be defined along with profiler.period.duration.
profiler.ttl If a message has not been applied to a Profile in this period of time, the Profile will be forgotten and its resources will be cleaned up. This value should be defined along with profiler.ttl.units.
profiler.ttl.units The units used to specify the profiler.ttl.
profiler.hbase.salt.divisor A salt is prepended to the row key to help prevent hotspotting. This constant is used to generate the sale. Ideally, this constant should be roughly equal to the number of nodes in the HBase cluster.
profiler.hbase.table The name of the HBase table that profiles are written to.
profiler.hbase.column.family The column family used to store profiles.
profiler.hbase.batch The number of puts that are written in a single batch.
profiler.hbase.flush.interval.seconds The maximum number of seconds between batch writes to HBase.