VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance monitors the External Samsung Events using Kafka Collector. Below is the procedure to configure to listen to Samsung Events using Kafka Collector.

Note: The Samsung USM needs to be configured to dump events to any external Kafka or VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance Edge Kafka.

Prerequisites
  • VMware Aria Operations must be installed and Kubernetes Management Pack must be deployed.
  • Kubernetes Management Pack must be configured to manage the infrastructure.
  • Modify the /etc/hosts file where the Domain Manager Servers are running to update the IP address to Kafka Service mapping:
    • For TKG deployment: <Virtual IP address of the VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid workload cluster> kafka-edge.
    • For AKS and AWS deployment: <Kafka Edge IP> kafka-edge.
    • For VM Based On-Prem Demo deployment,: <Kafka Edge IP> kafka-edge.
    Note: For identifying the Kafka IP address, see Identify Data Collection Framework and Kafka IP Address and Port Numbers.
  • Login to the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance UI. Navigate to Administration > Kafka Mappers. There is a default samsung-du-event mapper that needs to be used for configuring Samsung vDU Events. events.Samsung-vDU-Event-Mapper

    The following screenshot represents the default samsung-du-event for the Samsung vDU events.Kafka Event Mapper

    The following snippet represents the sample data model for the Samsung events. 
    {
  "severity": "Critical",
  "alarmTimeOffset": "+00:00",
  "neId": "UADPF_153001011",
  "code": "A1699460R",
  "probableCause": "service-off",
  "clearTime": "2023-05-23 20:35:13",
  "alarmTime": "2023-05-23 20:35:07",
  "location": "/DEGRR/DEGRR00123A-NR",
  "neName": "DEGRR00123A",
  "group": "Equipment"
}
  • Configuring the Kafka Collector

    The following screenshot represents a sample Kafka collector configuration. Kafka Event Collector

To view the Samsung vDU reports, see the 5G Dashboard Reports in the VMware Telco Cloud Service Assurance User Guide.