This section describes the procedure of creating an Enrichment Stream.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to Administration > Configuration > Enrichment.
  2. Click Add.
    The browser navigates to the Data Enrichment page.
    Enter 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 Service Assurance record being enriched. Four types of records are supported in this release:
      • VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance Metric
      • VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance Event
      • VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance Topology
      • MnR Metric
    4. Enricher: Atleast one Enricher is required. To configure multiple enrichers. Click Add. A new Enricher is 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 Service Assurance 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 that is selected in step 1.
        • For VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance Metric & MnR Metric data type, it shows Metric Properties for the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance metric data model
        • For VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance Event data type, it shows Event Properties for the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance event data model.
        • For VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance Topology data type, it shows Topology Properties for the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance topology data model.
  3. 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. After the Enrichment configuration is saved or canceled, the browser returns to the Enrichment list page.
    Note: The external reference data need to be sent to the reference topic to allow the Enrichers to enrich the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance records. You 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, you must contact the system admin for the information of the Edge Kafka host. The Edge Kafka service is available on port 9092 of the host.