Create a connection for the DSP Azure Event Hubs Connector with an SAS key

Use the Azure Event Hubs Connector using SAS keys to get data from an Event Hub namespace.

You can reuse the Azure Event Hubs connection for both the Azure Event Hubs using SAS Key source function and the Write to Azure Event Hubs Using SAS Key sink function.

Write to Azure Event Hubs Using SAS Key is a beta function and not ready for production.

Before you can use any connector, you must create a connection.

Prerequisites

Outbound ports 5671 and 5672 must be open in the firewalls of all the nodes in the DSP cluster. If these outbound ports are not open, DSP cannot communicate with Azure Event Hubs. Ask your DSP administrator to confirm the port configurations and open the ports if needed.

Steps

1. Click on the Connections tab.
2. Click Create New Connection.
3. Choose the Azure Event Hubs Using SAS Key connector.
4. Click Next.
5. Complete the following fields:

   Field	Description
   Name	A unique name for your Azure Event Hubs connection.
   Description	(Optional) A description of your your Azure Event Hubs connection.
   Namespace name	The name of the Azure Event Hubs namespace used to read and write events
   SAS name	The name of the Shared Access Signature (SAS) key used to authenticate to Azure Event Hubs.
   SAS key	The SAS key used to authenticate to Azure Event Hubs. Your shared access key must have listening privileges for the namespace.

   Any credentials that you upload are transmitted securely by HTTPs, encrypted, and securely stored in a secrets manager.

   If your data fails to get into DSP, check the fields again to make sure you have the correct name, namespace name, SAS name, and SAS key for your Azure Event Hubs connection. DSP doesn't run a check to see if you enter the valid credentials.

6. Click Save.
7. (Optional) If you are editing a connection that's being used by an active pipeline, you must reactivate that pipeline after making your changes.

You can use your connection in a data pipeline.

See also

Data streams from the Azure Event Hubs Connector in a specific schema. For information on what this schema looks like or how to process Azure Event Hubs data in your data pipeline, see Azure Event Hubs Using SAS Key in the DSP Function Reference manual and Configure an Azure Event Hubs pipeline in the User Manual.