Kafka Agent

Notifications → Notification Agents → Kafka Agent


** Version 6.0.2 onwards event notification through Kafka Agent is supported.

Kafka Agent is for third-party integration provides event notifications like SNMP/Syslog agent and allocates severity for each notification set. It has the below fields.


Fields

Description

Name

Name of the Kafka Agent.

Host

Specifies IP or hostname of the ‘zoo keeper’.

** The ‘zoo keeper’ is a Kafka element that redirects to the agent itself (load balancing and so).

Port

Kafka Agent port. The default port is 9092.

Topic

It is a field for Kafka. If left blank, ‘mcm9000’ will be applied automatically as the message topic.

Ignore Notification SetsIf enabled, all messages are sent for all sources except the notification set configuration.
Network

Select the network interface to connect with the Kafka agent. Auto for automatic selection.


Currently, the following messages are sent to the Kafka Agent

  • Channel Events

  • Channel Statistics

  • Channel SCTE-35/104 parsed messages

  • Channel CC/Teletext content

  • Channel OTT Http headers

  • Channel Thumbs