Note: SoftNAS® FlexFiles Architect is a part of our legacy SoftNAS Platinum offering. It will not be visible in versions above 4.4.1 of our SoftNAS product, and is included here for legacy purposes.
SoftNAS® FlexFiles Architect is a NiFi-based solution with the primary purpose of managing data flows between systems. In particular, SoftNAS' FlexFiles implementation , it controls the flows between SoftNAS Instances/Virtual Machines it is running on. FlexFiles helps to provide visibility by representing objects moving through the data flow, as well as providing at a glance content information (such as Map of Key/Value attributes, Content/Payload, etc...)
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Refer to the above image to help identify specific commands needed through the remainder of this documentation. A more in depth look at these components can be found in Navigating FlexFiles Architect.
SoftNAS® FlexFiles Architect utilizes templates to help users configure common use case scenarios. SoftNAS® FlexFiles provides insight to where corrections or modifications are required within the various components within the templates. For example, in the image below there are 6 items needing to be addressed within this template. As you proceed through the following sections, key an eye out for these markers to help guide you where issues need to be addressed. Once all the templates have been configured, you should not have any outstanding issues to be addressed.
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