Creating a Topic with a Real-time Publication Repository
Creating a Topic with a Real-time Publication Repository
This topic describes how to create a topic that fetches consumer metrics from the Apache Kafka messaging platform.
Task Prerequisites
Before you start this task, obtain the details of the topic structure that you want to create.
To create a new topic with the Apache Kafka repository, perform the following tasks:
In the Navigator, click
Hub Management
Topics
.
The
Topics
page appears.
Click
New Topic
, select
Real-Time
, and then click
Create
.
The
Create Real-timeTopic
wizard appears.
Enter the topic name.
Optionally, enter a description of the topic.
Optionally, assign a tag to the topic so that you can search for the topic on the
Topics
page and the
Catalog
page based on the tag.
Enter the number of partitions.
The maximum number of partitions that the topic can have is 999.
Select the intervals in which the topic must fetch the consumer metrics from the Apache Kafka server.
The default value is 30 seconds.
Click
Permissions
to provide permissions of a category to the topic.
Select a category from the
Available Categories
and click the right arrow.
The category that you select is displayed in the list of
Selected Categories
. The topic now has permissions that are defined for the selected category.
Click
Save
.
The
Create Real-time Topic
wizard closes. The Topics page displays the topic you created. You can create publications that publish data to the topic and subscriptions that consume data from the topic.