Automated Continuous Oracle Eloqua Reporting Replication to Apache Kafka

Always-on applications rely on automatic failover capabilities and real-time data access. CData Sync integrates live Oracle Eloqua Reporting data into your Apache Kafka instance, allowing you to consolidate all of your data into a single location for archiving, reporting, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and more.

Configure Apache Kafka as a Replication Destination

Using CData Sync, you can replicate Oracle Eloqua Reporting data to Apache Kafka. To add a replication destination, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select the Destinations tab and locate the Apache Kafka connector.
3. Click the Configure Connection icon at the end of that row to open the New Connection page. If the Configure Connection icon is not available, click the Download Connector icon to install the Apache Kafka connector. For more information about installing new connectors, see Connections in the Help documentation.
4. To connect to Apache Kafka, set the following connection properties:
   • Connection Name: Enter a connection name of your choice for the Apache Kafka connection.
   • Bootstrap Servers: Enter the address of the Apache Kafka Bootstrap servers to which you want to connect.
   • Auth Scheme: Select the authentication scheme. Plain is the default setting. For this setting, specify your login credentials:
   • User: Enter the username that you use to authenticate to Apache Kafka.
   • Password: Enter the password that you use to authenticate to Apache Kafka.
   • Type Detection Scheme: Specify the detection-scheme type (None, RowScan, SchemaRegistry, or MessageOnly) that you want to use. The default type is None.
   • Registry Url: Enter the URL to the server for the schema registry.
   • Registry Service: Select the Schema Registry service that you want to use for working with topic schemas.
   • Registry Auth Scheme: Select the scheme that you want to use to authenticate to the schema registry.
   • Use SSL: Specify whether you want to use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. The default value is False.

5. Once connected, click Create & Test to create, test and save the connection.

You are now connected to Apache Kafka and can use it as both a source and a destination.

NOTE: You can use the Label feature to add a label for a source or a destination.

In this article, we will demonstrate how to load Oracle Eloqua Reporting data into Apache Kafka and utilize it as a destination.

Configure the Oracle Eloqua Reporting Connection

You can configure a connection to Oracle Eloqua Reporting from the Connections tab. To add a connection to your Oracle Eloqua Reporting account, navigate to the Connections tab.

1. Click Add Connection.
2. Select a source (Oracle Eloqua Reporting).
3. Configure the connection properties.
   
   

   Oracle Eloqua Reporting supports the following authentication methods:

   • Basic authentication (User and Password)
   • OAuth 2.0 code grant flow
   • OAuth 2.0 password grant flow

   Basic Authentication (User and Password)

   To perform authentication with a user and password, specify these properties:

   • AuthScheme: Basic.
   • Company: The company name associated with your Oracle Eloqua Reporting account.
   • User: Your login account name.
   • Password: Your login password.

   OAuth Authentication (Code Grant Flow)

   To authenticate with the OAuth code grant flow, you must set AuthScheme to OAuth and create a custom OAuth application. For information about how to create a custom OAuth application, see the Help documentation.

   Then set the following properties:

   • InitiateOAuth: GETANDREFRESH. Used to automatically get and refresh the OAuthAccessToken.
   • OAuthClientId: The client Id assigned when you registered your application.
   • OAuthClientSecret: The client secret that was assigned when you registered your application.
   • CallbackURL: The redirect URI that was defined when you registered your application.

   When you connect, the driver opens Oracle Eloqua Reporting's OAuth endpoint in your default browser. Log in and grant permissions to the application. When the access token expires, the driver refreshes it automatically.

   OAuth Authentication (Password Grant Flow)

   With the OAuth password grant flow, you can use your OAuth application's credentials alongside your user credentials to authenticate without the need to grant permission manually via a browser prompt. You must create an OAuth app (see the Help documentation) to use this authentication method.

   Set the following properties:

   • AuthScheme: OAuthPassword
   • Company: The company's unique identifier.
   • User: Your login account name.
   • Password: Your login password.
   • OAuthClientId: The client Id assigned when you registered your custom OAuth application.
   • OAuthClientSecret: The client secret assigned when you registered your custom OAuth application.
   
4. Click Connect to Oracle Eloqua Reporting to ensure that the connection is configured properly.
5. Click Save & Test to save the changes.

Configure Replication Queries

CData Sync enables you to control replication with a point-and-click interface and with SQL queries. For each replication you wish to configure, navigate to the Jobs tab and click Add Job. Select the Source and Destination for your replication.

Replicate Entire Tables

To replicate an entire table, navigate to the Task tab in the Job, click Add Tasks, choose the table(s) from the list of Oracle Eloqua Reporting tables you wish to replicate into Apache Kafka, and click Add Tasks again.

Customize Your Replication

You can use the Columns and Query tabs of a task to customize your replication. The Columns tab allows you to specify which columns to replicate, rename the columns at the destination, and even perform operations on the source data before replicating. The Query tab allows you to add filters, grouping, and sorting to the replication with the help of SQL queries.

Schedule Your Replication

Select the Overview tab in the Job, and click Configure under Schedule. You can schedule a job to run automatically by configuring it to run at specified intervals, ranging from once every 10 minutes to once every month.

Once you have configured the replication job, click Save Changes. You can configure any number of jobs to manage the replication of your Oracle Eloqua Reporting data to Apache Kafka.

Run the Replication Job

Once all the required configurations are made for the job, select the Oracle Eloqua Reporting table you wish to replicate and click Run. After the replication completes successfully, a notification appears, showing the time taken to run the job and the number of rows replicated.

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