Configuring IBM Maximo Application Suite with Amazon Web Services MSK

You can configure Maximo Application Suite to use a provisioned Amazon MSK instance.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Maximo Application Suite as an admin user.
  2. On the Configurations page, select the Apache Kafka option from others list.
  3. To add Apache Kafka under the system scope, click Configure.
  4. Add parameters, such as the hosts, port, SASL mechanism as scram-aha-512, username, and password.
  5. Paste the Amazon ca-certificate details that you can copy from https://www.amazontrust.com/repository/AmazonRootCA1.pem.
  6. Click Confirm and then Save.
  7. Verify the Kafka configuration status in Configurations > Apache Kafka > System scope.
  8. Optional: To verify that the Kafka configuration is running, open the instances tab of the KafkaCfg CRD for the selected namespace on the Red Hat® OpenShift® console.