Version of Azure Events Hub required

The Aspire Azure Events Hub connector was created and tested using Aspire 4.0.

Before installing the Azure Events Hub connector, make sure that:

• Azure Events Hub is up and running

User Account Requirements 

In order to access the Azure Events Hub connector, a connection must be established to a valid Azure Events Hub Service.

Microsoft Azure Events Hub is a service that is independent of Accenture Aspire technologies and licenses. For more information on Azure Events Hub see Azure Events Hub on Microsoft. You can also see this link for information on how to Create an event hub using Azure portal.

When creating the Event Hub you obtain the Namespace and Event Hub name. For the other 2 fields required for authentication, the SAS Key Name and the SAS Key, you can see this article on how to obtain a connection string, and get the values from that connection string. The connection string template looks like this:

Endpoint=sb://<FQDN>/;SharedAccessKeyName=<KeyName>;SharedAccessKey=<KeyValue>

Windows or Linux

The Azure Events Hub connector runs on either Windows or Linux.