Enabling Smart Connect

Scenario

Smart Connect synchronizes data between Kafka and other cloud services (such as OBS) or between two Kafka instances for backup.

Procedure for using Smart Connect:

1. Enable Smart Connect.
2. Create a Smart Connect task.

This section describes how to enable Smart Connect.

This function is unavailable for single-node instances.

Impact

Enabling Smart Connect incurs additional broker fees.

For example, if you enable Smart Connect for a kafka.4u8g.cluster instance, two more kafka.4u8g brokers will be created for Smart Connect and you need to pay for them.

Prerequisites

• A Kafka instance has been created and is in the Running state.
• auto.create.groups.enable is set to true. If no, modify it by referring to Modifying Kafka Instance Configuration Parameters.

Enabling Smart Connect

1. Log in to the console.
2. Click in the upper left corner to select a region.
   

   Select the region where your Kafka instance is located.

3. Click in the upper left corner and choose Middleware > Distributed Message Service (for Kafka) to open the console of DMS for Kafka.
4. Enable Smart Connect using one of the following methods:
   • In the row containing the desired Kafka instance, choose More > Enable Smart Connect.
   • Click the desired Kafka instance to view its details. In the upper right corner, choose More > Enable Smart Connect.
   • Click the desired Kafka instance to view its details. Click next to Smart Connect.
   • Click the desired Kafka instance to view its details. In the navigation pane, choose Smart Connect. Click Enable Smart Connect.

5. Click to enable Smart Connect. Then click Next.
6. On the displayed Enabling Smart Connect for Kafka Instance page, ensure that Smart Connect is enabled and click Submit.

Follow-up Operations

Proceed to Replicating Kafka Instance Data, Dumping Kafka Data to Object Storage Service (OBS), to synchronize data between DMS for Kafka and other cloud services.