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 Sets	If 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