Configure the Smart Assurance Adapter

After you install the management pack, add and configure an instance to start collecting data. Primarily SmartAssurance adapter needs kafka broker details to be configured for functioning.

Procedure

1. In the menu, click Administration or Data Sources and then in the left pane, click Solutions or Integrations.
2. On the Solutions or INtegrations page, click other account option or Add Account.
3. Click Smart Assurance Adapter, and click the Configure icon.
4. Select the instance in the left pane and configure the instance settings.

   Option	Description	Default Value
   Display Name	Enter a name for the adapter instance.
   Description	Enter a description for the adapter instance.
   KafkaBrokerIP:Port	Enter the FDQN or the IP address for the Kafka broker IP and port. Note: The kafka broker IP and port needs to be separated by ":" and the multiple IP Addresses must be separated by comma ",".
   Kafka Topic(s)	Enter the kafka topic name. These topics must be pre-configured on kafka and various DCF collector must be producing data in that topic. The multiple topic must be separated by comma ",".

5. To add the credentials used to access the Kafka Server, click the Add icon.
   1. To add the credentials used to access the Kafka Server with authentication enabled:

      Option	Description
      Credential Name	Enter the name by which you are identifying the configured credentials.
      Kafka UserName	Enter the username with which you connect to kafka.
      Kafka Password	Enter the password with which you connect to kafka.

   2. To add the credentials used to access the Kafka Server with authentication disabled:

      Option	Description
      Credential Name	Enter the name by which you are identifying the configured credentials.
      Kafka Username	Leave the username blank.
      Kafka Password	Leave the password field blank.

   3. To add the Kafka and vROPS REST Endpoint Credentials with authentication enabled:

      Option	Description
      Credential Kind	Choose Kafka and vROPS REST Endpoint Credentials.
      Credential Name	Enter the name by which you are identifying the configured credentials.
      Kafka Username	Enter the username with which you connect to kafka.
      Kafka Password	Enter the password with which you connect to kafka.
      vROPs REST IP address	Enter the vROPs REST endpoint ipaddress.
      vROPs REST UserName	Enter the username for vROPs REST endpoint.
      vROPs REST Password	Enter the user provided password for vROPs REST endpoint.

   Note: SASL_SSL and SSL authentication mechanism are not supported.
6. Click OK and then click Validate Connection to validate the connection.
7. You can configure the Advanced Settings or leave it as default.

   Option	Description	Default Value
   Kafka read time out Interval	Waiting period in seconds for kafka client to get the data on the kafka bus before it times out in that particular collection cycle.	120 seconds
   Kafka Message Start Offset	Enter the kafka message. Kafka client will start reading messages from the specified offset value.	0
   Number of Retry	Number of retries attempted to read the data on failure.	2
   Number of Iteration	Enter the number of times Kafka consumer poll data from kafka bus in one vROps polling cycle.	2

8. Click Add.
   The adapter instance is added to the list.