General

Can I run two instances of the flume node on the same unix machine?

Yes. Run flume with the -n option.

flume node &
flume node -n <physicalnodename> &

Can I run two instances of the flume node on the same windows machine?

Yes. Install two instances of Flume Node for Windows. Change the installation path (ex: flume to flume-a) for the second installation.
You also need to change default port numbers (35862) in conf file in the FlumeNode Properties. Also you need to change some java options to change the flume.home path.

TODO: Add way to specify physical node name in configuration file.

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