Starting the Apache Kafka services

After you start the Apache Kafka services, you must create topics for the IBM® Surveillance Insight for Financial Services data.

Procedure

  1. On the computer where Apache Kafka is installed, log on as the root user.
  2. Go to the /opt/kafka_2.10-0.10.0.1 directory.
  3. Enter the following command to start the zookeeper process:

    bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh config/zookeeper.properties &

  4. Enter the following command to start the Kafka process:

    bin/kafka-server-start.sh config/server.properties &