Event Endpoint Management continues to be enhanced

Event Endpoint Management continues to be available and enhanced as part of IBM's integration platforms.

End of Marketing announcement for IBM Event Automation

Event Streams and Event Processing are deprecated and no enhancements will be provided. Support and security fixes will be provided in line with published support lifecycle policies. Future event-driven solutions that make use of Apache Kafka and Apache Flink will be delivered by IBM Confluent.

For more information, see the support lifecycle transition and software ordering completion announcement.

Attention: This version of Event Streams has reached End of Support. For more information about supported versions, see the support matrix.

Unable to connect to Kafka cluster

Symptoms

The following error is displayed when trying to connect to your Kafka cluster using SSL, for example, when running the Kafka Connect source connector for IBM MQ:

org.apache.kafka.common.errors.SslAuthenticationException: SSL handshake failed

Causes

The Java process might replace the IP address of your cluster with the corresponding hostname value found in your /etc/hosts file.

For example, to be able to access Docker images from your IBM Cloud Private cluster, you might have added an entry in your /etc/hosts file that corresponds to the IP address of your cluster, such as 192.0.2.24 mycluster.icp.

In such cases, the following Java exception is displayed after the previously mentioned error message:

Caused by: java.security.cert.CertificateException: No subject alternative DNS name matching XXXXX found.

Resolving the problem

If you see the exception mentioned previously, comment out the hostname value in your /etc/hosts file to solve this connection issue.