Adapters allow Apama to interface with external sources of events like message buses, event feeds, or databases. You use the Integration Adapter Framework (IAF) with any of the standard, pre-packaged Apama adapters installed with the product or with custom adapters that you develop. To deploy an adapter, you specify the appropriate information in the adapter’s configuration file and then start the IAF using the configuration file. This section describes how to deploy Apama adapters from the EMM console. You can also use Apama command line utilities to start and manage adapters.

This topic describes how to use the EMM menu items to carry out operations on Apama adapters. However, all these operations can also be carried out from the context menus in the Navigation Pane, and the most useful are also available on the toolbar.

Before operations can be carried out on these components, a Sentinel Agent must be installed and running on the target host, and the EMM console must have been configured to manage that host, as detailed in Managing hosts.