Enabling InfoSphere MDM to send notifications to Apache Kafka
As an alternate to the standard Notification Framework, which uses either the default WebSphere JMS or WebSphere MQ for sending notifications, you can enable InfoSphere® MDM to send notifications to Apache Kafka topics.
Before you begin
After installation, you can enable InfoSphere MDM 11.6.0.11 to support more recently released versions of Kafka than the one included in the base InfoSphere MDM installation. To enable support for Kafka 2.6, 2.7, or 2.8, complete some important configuration changes. For more information, see Configuring InfoSphere MDM to support Apache Kafka 2.6, 2.7, or 2.8.
- Notifications must be enabled in the MDM operational server. To enable notifications, set the
value of the
/IBM/DWLCommonServices/Notifications/enabled
configuration element to true:update configelement set value='true',last_update_dt=current_timestamp where name='/IBM/DWLCommonServices/Notifications/enabled';
- Apache Zookeeper must be running in the InfoSphere MDM environment.
About this task
Procedure
What to do next
When you have enabled InfoSphere MDM to send notifications to Kafka, you must also configure the notification subscribers, such as the IBM Stewardship Center (through IBM Business Process Manager), to receive them. For information about configuring IBM Stewardship Center and BPM to receive notifications through Kafka, see Enabling BPM to receive InfoSphere MDM notifications through Apache Kafka.