This section describes the procedure of creating an Enrichment Stream.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to Administration > Notification Definition > Enrichment.
  2. Click Create.
    Upate the following parameters:
    1. Name: Required field. Configures the name of the enrichment. Only letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores are allowed.
    2. Description: Required field. Configures the description of the enrichment. A double quote in the field will be escaped to a single quote.
    3. Data Type: The data type of the VMware Telco Cloud Operations record being enriched. Four types of records are supported in this release:
      • VMware Telco Cloud Operations Metric
      • VMware Telco Cloud Operations Event
      • VMware Telco Cloud Operations Topology
      • MnR Metric
  3. Click Next.

    You can configure multiple enrichers. Click Add New Enricher, a new enricher will be added.

    In each enricher, there are three fields to be configured:
    • Enricher Name: The name of the enricher.
    • Reference Topic: Required field. Configures the Kafka topic where the external reference data is sent to. The enricher uses the external reference data to enrich the VMware Telco Cloud Operations records. Only letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, and periods are allowed.
    • Enrichment Key: Required field. Configures the key using the properties in the internal data model, which is used to match with the corresponding external reference data key. Type '\' for content assist, which shows the properties in the drop-down list. The selected property is shown in the field in the desired syntax format. The properties in the drop-down list match the Data Type the user selected in step 1:
      • For VMware Telco Cloud Operations Metric & MnR Metric data type, it shows Metric Properties for the VMware Telco Cloud Operations metric data model
      • For VMware Telco Cloud Operations Event data type, it shows Event Properties for the VMware Telco Cloud Operations event data model.
      • For VMware Telco Cloud Operations Topology data type, it shows Topology Properties for the VMware Telco Cloud Operations topology data model.
    Note: If the required fields don't have valid values, click Next to display the error on the page and the Next button will be disabled.
  4. Enter the required parameters details, and click Next..
    The summary of the enrichment configuration displays in the wizard. You can go back to edit the previous steps or can save the enrichment configuration.
  5. Click Save & Exit to save the current enrichment configuration and exit the wizard or click Save & Run to save the current enrichment configuration and start the enrichment processing.
    Note: The external reference data need to be sent to the reference topic to allow the enrichers to enrich the VMware Telco Cloud Operations records. The user can send the enrichment data to the topic in the Edge Kafka service directly or can use the Add Reference Data action menu as described in the Add Reference Data section. To access the Edge Kafka service, the user needs to contact the system admin for the information of the Edge Kafka host. The Edge Kafka service is available on port 9092 of the host.