Using SL1 Publisher

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Publisher is a service that retrieves near real-time availability and interface performance data from SL1 Data Collectors or the SL1 Agent and delivers the data to a third-party destination for long-term data storage, analysis, or reporting. For example, Publisher can send data to Kafka topics.

Publisher supports the concept of data models, which specify where you want to retrieve ingested data from, and subscriptions, which allow you to specify what data to push and where to send it.

A library of Python functions (sl-schema-registry) is provided in the ScienceLogic Support Site for deserializing messages sent to Kafka topics by Publisher.

Publisher is installed and enabled by default in the SL1 Extended Architecture, however you must configure Publisher before it will send your data to a destination. Client software, such as Kafka, must be configured on your own hardware.