Connecting to Kafka with no authentication

You can set the Case event emitter to connect to Kafka with no security.

About this task

Attention: If you choose to set the Case event emitter to connect to Kafka with no authentication, be aware that your data is accessible to unauthorized users.

Procedure

In the output section of the CaseEventEmitter.json file that is passed to the EnableCaseBAI.py configuration script, add the sasl.mechanism property set to PLAIN.

Example

"output" : {
     "default" : { 
      "enable" : true,
      "type" : "kafka",
      "sasl.mechanism": "PLAIN",
      "bootstrap.servers" : "localhost:9092",
      "topic" : "ibm-bai-ingress"
     }    
  }