Securing BPM emitter communications to Kafka

For securing the connection from BPM event emitters to Cloud Pak Foundational services Kafka, you set configuration parameters on the event emitter.

About this task

Through the EnableBAI.py configuration script, you pass values to the properties that are required to set up the BPM event emitter and you update the generated .properties configuration file for specific requirements. See also Creating and customizing dashboards and charts.

Procedure

  1. Retrieve the Kafka client parameters as instructed as instructed in Option 1: Retrieving information for connection to Kafka using commands.
  2. Use the retrieved connection information to set the following parameters.
    bootstrapServers
    The Kafka bootstrap servers in <host>:<port> format.
    trustStore
    The full path to a truststore.
    trustStore.password
    The password to the truststore.
    username
    The username.
    password
    The password.