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Regarding connecting a remote Phoebus to the alarm server, I also had difficulty getting this to work;  here is what I did:

My alarm server was running kafka, zookeeper, and elasticsearch.  The kafka serves the alarm panel and alarm tree UI on the phoebus, and the elasticsearch is needed for the phoebus alarm logger UI.

On the alarm server machine (epicsalmsrv), the kafka/config/server.properties file had these key lines:

auto.create.topics.enable=false
zookeeper.connect=localhost:2181 

listeners=PLAINTEXT://0.0.0.0:9092     (I had a multi-network machine so 0.0.0.0 listens for requests on all ethernet ports, localhost:9092 should work for a single ethernet system)
advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT://epicsalmsrv:9092

On the alarm server machine,  in  /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml:

xpack.security.enabled: false

I recall this setting wasn't present initially, but appears only after the elasticsearch service is started for the first time.

On the alarm server machine, in the alarm_logger.properties file used when starting the alarm-logger.sh, you may need these key settings:

alarm_topics=NSTX-U,Accelerator,CAMAC
es_host=localhost
es_port=9200
es_sniff=false
es_create_templates=true
bootstrap.servers=localhost:9092

Also, besides tech-talk I found some good information about these topics on the GIT website, searching the "Issues" .

Regards,

-ps

On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 4:34 PM Srinivas, Dhruv via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote: