Kafka Connector Guide

Kafka Connector Guide

Basic Connection Properties

Basic Connection Properties

The following table describes the basic properties that you can configure on the
Properties
tab of the connection creation page:
Property
Description
Name
Required. Unique name for the Kafka connection that identifies it in the Process Designer. The name must start with an alphabet and can contain only alphabets, numbers, or hyphens (-).
Location
Optional. The location of the project or folder where you want to save the connection. Click
Browse
to select a location.
If the
Explore
page is currently active and a project or folder is selected, the default location for the connection is the selected project or folder. Otherwise, the default location is the location of the most recently saved asset.
Description
Optional. Description of the connection.
Type
Required. The type of connection you want to use for the connector or service connector.
Select
Kafka
.
Run On
Required. The runtime environment for the connection. You can run the connection on a Secure Agent group, a Secure Agent machine, or the Cloud Server.
You must unpublish the connection before changing the runtime environment from the Cloud Server to the Secure Agent, or from the Secure Agent to the Cloud Server.
You can publish Kafka connections only on the AWS PODs on the Cloud Server.
Connection Test
Indicates whether the connection test was successful or not. By default, the property displays the results of the connection test.
OData-Enabled
Not supported for Kafka Connector.
After you configure the basic properties, you must also define the following properties:
  • The properties applicable to the Kafka connection type
  • The event source properties and event target properties for the Kafka connection

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