title: Using flume to read IBM MQ data
body: <p>I want to read data from IBM MQ and put it  into HDFs.</p>
  
  <p>Looked into JMS source of flume, seems it can connect to IBM MQ, but I’m not understanding what does “destinationType” and “destinationName” mean in the list of required properties. Can someone please explain?</p>
  
  <p>Also, how I should be configuring my flume agents </p>
  
  <p>flumeAgent1(runs on the machine same as MQ) reads MQ data ---- flumeAgent2(Runs on Hadoop cluster) writes into Hdfs
  OR only one agent is enough on Hadoop cluster </p>
  
  <p>Can someone help me in understanding how MQs can be integrated with flume</p>
  
  <p>Reference</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html" rel="nofollow">https://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html</a></p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Chhaya</p>