Confluent
  • 02 Jan 2025
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Confluent is a data streaming platform that enables you to easily access, store, and manage data as continuous, real-time streams.


Types of Assets Fetched

This adapter fetches the following types of assets:

  • Devices
  • Users

Parameters

  1. Host Name or IP Address (required) - The hostname or IP address of the Confluent server that Axonius can communicate with

  2. API Key ID (required) - An API Key associated with a user account that has the OrganizationAdmin role to fetch assets.

  3. API Secret Key (required) - An API Secret associated with a user account that has permissions to fetch assets.

Note:

The API Secret Key is only exposed momentarily in the Create API key dialog. Make sure to store the secret and its corresponding key in a secure location.

For more details about obtaining an API Key and API Secret Key, see Create a Cloud API Key.

  1. Verify SSL Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server against the CA database inside of Axonius. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.

  2. HTTPS Proxy (optional) - Connect the adapter to a proxy instead of directly connecting it to the domain.

  3. HTTPS Proxy User Name (optional) - The user name to use when connecting to the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address via the value supplied in HTTPS Proxy.

  4. HTTPS Proxy Password (optional) - The password to use when connecting to the server using the HTTPS Proxy.

To learn more about common adapter connection parameters and buttons, see Adding a New Adapter Connection.

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Advanced Settings

Note:

Advanced settings can either apply for all connections for this adapter, or you can set different advanced settings and/or different scheduling for a specific connection, refer to ​Advanced Configuration for Adapters.

  • External Cluster Data to Fetch (required, default: Configs) - From the dropdown, select one or more options to fetch external cluster data.
Note:

To learn more about Adapter Configuration tab advanced settings, see Adapter Advanced Settings.

APIs

Axonius uses the Confluent REST Proxy API.

Required Ports

Axonius must be able to communicate with the value supplied in Host Name or IP Address via the following ports:

  • TCP port 80/443

Required Permissions

The value supplied in API Key must have basic authentication.

Version Matrix

This adapter was only tested with the versions marked as supported, but may work with other versions. Contact Axonius Support if you have a version that is not listed, which is not functioning as expected.

VersionSupportedNotes
Confluent REST Proxy API V1 & V3Yes


Supported From Version

Supported from Axonius version 4.5


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