Configure Pulse to Monitor Standalone Kafka 3 with Kerberos

This page describes about configuring Pulse to monitor standalone Kafka 3 with Kerberos.

On a Pulse node, run accelo config cluster.
Select Stand-Alone deployment during deployment type.

Select Kafka3 Standalone component.

Enter Cluster Name.

Enter Kafka bootstrap server’s URI.

Select Kerberos as the security type.

Select TLS is enabled or not.

Enter Kerberos Authentication Realm.

Enter Kerberos keytab username.

Enter Principalfor kafka client.

Enter full path to the Client Keytabfile.

Enter full path to the krb5.conf file.

If the above configurations are correct, the CLI will automatically fetch the list of brokers.

Verify the list and select y to proceed.

Select Metadata Manager → Zookeeper / KRaft.

Enter the URI’s for MetaData Manager.

Enter Kafka Connect hostname and port.

Enter Cruise Control hostname and port.

Enter Schema Registry hostname and port.

Enter the ssh user details.

Enter all the required JMX ports and LogSearch configurations.

Additional Configuration

Update Kafka Connector Config

Add the following in:

$ACCELDATA_HOME/config/acceldata.conf

kafka3.connectors {
 saslMechanism = "GSSAPI"
}

Configure Log Locations

Create:

$ACCELDATA_HOME/work/<cluster_name>/override.yml

Add:

log_locations:
 kafka3_connect:
 - path: /path_to/connect.log
 type: DEFAULT
 kafka3_connect_err:
 - path: /path_to/kafka-connect.err
 type: KAFKA_ERR
 kafka3_controller:
 - path: /path_to/controller.log
 type: DEFAULT
 kafka3_cruise_control:
 - path: /path_to/kafkacruisecontrol.log
 type: DEFAULT
 kafka3_cruise_control_err:
 - path: /path_to/cruise-control.err
 type: KAFKA_ERR
 kafka3_log_cleaner:
 - path: /path_to/log-cleaner.log
 type: DEFAULT
 kafka3_server:
 - path: /path_to/server.log
 type: DEFAULT
 kafka3_server_gc:
 - path: /path_to/kafkaServer-gc.log
 type: DEFAULT
 kafka3_state_change:
 - path: /path_to/state-change.log
 type: DEFAULT
 kraftbroker_err:
 - path: /path_to/kraft-broker.err
 type: DEFAULT
 kraftcontroller_err:
 - path: /path_to/kraft-controller.err
 type: DEFAULT
 registry_err:
 - path: /path_to/registry.err
 type: REGISTRY
 registry_server:
 - path: /path_to/registry.log
 type: REGISTRY