Itential’s Kafka adapter allows users to build automations that automatically trigger as a result of specific messages Itential receives from other platforms and systems. Kafka, a message/event streaming and filtering platform for machine-to-machine communication, can be configured to listen for messages based on Rabbit topics and Kafka partition capabilities. Then, the Kafka adapter uses regular expressions to define filtering against which messages are matched to determine whether or not a given message should be sent to Itential for a response.
In this ItentiaLearn demo, see step-by-step how to:
- Set up the Kafka adapter for the first time.
- Understand how configuration files and brokers interact.
- Define Rabbit topics and filtering for automated message consumption.
- Configure SASL authentication for Kafka event streaming.
Useful Links Referenced in Demo
Demo Notes
(So you can skip ahead, if you want.)
00:00 Introduction & Overview of Demo
00:19 Simple Kafka Setup for Testing Purposes
00:41 Adding & Configuring the Adapter to IAP
01:06 Kafka Message Topics
01:28 Specifying Partitions for Message Consumption
01:53 Providing Message Subscriber Filtering Information
02:07 Publishing Messages to Rabbit Topics
02:59 Setting Up SASL Authentication
