Before Configuring or Managing Adapter Services

About this task

Perform the following steps before configuring or managing adapter services.

To prepare to configure or manage Adapter for Apache Kafka services

Procedure

  1. Start the Integration Server and Integration Server Administrator, if they are not already running.
  2. Make sure you have administrator privileges so that you can access the Adapter for Apache Kafka administrative screens. For information about setting user privileges, see the IBM webMethods Integration Server Administrator’s Guide for your release.
  3. Using Integration Server Administrator, make sure the WmKafkaAdapter package is enabled. For instructions, see Enabling Packages.
  4. Using Integration Server Administrator, configure an adapter connection to use with the adapter service. For instructions, see Adapter Connections Overview.
  5. Start Designer if it is not already running.
  6. Using Designer, create a user-defined package to contain the services, if you have not already done so. When you configure adapter services, you should always define them in user-defined packages rather than in the WmKafkaAdapter package. For more information about managing packages for the adapter, see Overview of Package Management.