Does Skyline already have a Kafka integration in a form of a driver or as a module part of the core software?
If not, are there any expectations in terms of a roadmap to allow the users to import/export data from/to Kafka?
I had a circumstance in which I was asked if we were able to send data northbound to a Kafka cluster.
As far as I know we don't support direct Apache Kafka data ingestion. I believe however that this is something we can perfectly achieve if the DMA servers are configured to support Apache Kafka so that the DMA can act as producer and the destination system as consumer (in a scenario in which we send our data northbound to a Kafka Cluster), by sending forwarding messages using Apache's .NET dlls in our automation engine / drivers.
Cool article about this: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3215165/how-to-use-apache-kafka-messaging-in-net.html
Like SNMP, REST API’s, Kafka is now becoming de-facto standard for the transportation of the telemetric data in the telco world. So it would be good to have a DataMiner driver or plugin to enable both southbound and northbound interfaces.
This seems like my use case. As a user, I want to get metrics out of DataMiner towards Kafka.