Getting started with Event Endpoint Management
Event Endpoint Management provides the capability to describe and catalog your Kafka topics as virtual topics, and to grant access to application developers within your organization. Application developers can discover virtual topics and configure their applications to access them through the Event Gateway. With Event Endpoint Management, you can control access to your virtual topics, and what data they produce or consume.
Before you begin
To use Event Endpoint Management on IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration, you must have Event Endpoint Management provisioned in the IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration environment, and have a user with access to the Event Endpoint Management UI. For more information about provisioning Event Endpoint Management in IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration and configuring users, see the IBM webMethods Hybrid Integration documentation.
Getting started tasks
The following table specifies the order, tasks, and the user role that is required to get started with Event Endpoint Management.
| Order | Task | Description | User Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Add an Event Gateway | Install an Event Gateway, which is required to access Kafka topics. | Admin |
| 2 | Add a topic | Add a Kafka topic to which you can apply your own set of controls before you make it available to viewers in the catalog. | Author |
| 3 | Create and publish a virtual topic | Virtual topics control how the topic's stream of events are made available within the catalog. To make the stream of events available, you must publish the virtual topic. | Author |
| 4 | Consume virtual topics | Viewers can browse and subscribe to virtual topics in the catalog so that they can consume from the stream of events that are published by an author. | Viewer |