Glossary

I/O Server

An I/O server is the machine that hosts the main ckAgent process. Only on ckAgent process can be run per server.

Note

IO servers can be any server and need not be the same server the kafka broker is on.

Kafka broker

A Kafka broker is a machine running Apache Kafka. This may be part of a larger Kafka cluster or be a standalone broker.

IO Device

An IO device is an abstract class that reads data from a physical or simulated device and sends this data to Kafka topics. The implementation left to then specific IO device.