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+# Copyright 2017 Intel Research and Development Ireland Limited
+# *************************************************************
+
+# This file is part of OSM Monitoring module
+# All Rights Reserved to Intel Corporation
+
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
+# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
+# a copy of the License at
+
+#         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
+# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
+# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+# For those usages not covered by the Apache License, Version 2.0 please
+# contact: prithiv.mohan@intel.com or adrian.hoban@intel.com
+
+mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/
+cat  > /etc/systemd/system/kafka.service  << EOF
+[Unit]
+Description=Apache Kafka server (broker)
+Documentation=http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html
+Requires=network.target remote-fs.target
+After=network.target remote-fs.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+PIDFile=/var/run/kafka.pid
+#User=root
+#Group=kafka
+ExecStart=/opt/kafka/bin/kafka-server-start.sh /opt/kafka/config/server.properties
+ExecStop=/opt/kafka/bin/kafka-server-stop.sh
+Restart=on-failure
+SyslogIdentifier=kafka
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
+EOF
+systemctl daemon-reload
+systemctl enable kafka.service
+systemctl start kafka.service