Spark applications must be configured with a set of Kafka topics that are either shared between multiple applications or dedicated to specific applications. The assigned topics must be created before you submit an application to the Spark cluster. Before you can create the topics you must start Zookeeper and Kafka. 

Starting Clusters

Prerequisites:

• Prepare scripts according to  Preparing and Creating Scripts for KPI Management

Starting Clusters

To start a cluster follow the steps:

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