Nowadays, with growing infrastructure and increased complexity, it’s near impossible to manage configuration changes manually. Let’s look at an example scenario. Imagine you are the network admin of a large enterprise network handling 5,000 devices. You cannot remember the configuration of every device, especially if the network environment also supports multi-vendor devices.
You can integrate Edge Flow Manager (EFM) with Apache Kafka and forward agent heartbeats to defined Kafka topics. Learn how to perform the integration with Apache Kafka. To integrate EFM with Kafka, you need to configure Kafka and EFM properties. EFM supports the forwarding of agent heartbeats and acknowledges messages exchanged on the C2 protocol between the EFM server and MiNiFi agents.