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+# Copyright 2017-present Open Networking Foundation
+#
+# 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.
+
+# Manually send the event
+
+import json
+from kafka import KafkaProducer
+
+event = json.dumps({
+    'authentication_state': "APPROVED", #there will be a bunch of possible states here, actual values TBD, e.g. STARTED, REQUESTED, APPROVED, DENIED
+    'device_id': "of:0000000ce2314000",
+    'port_number': "101",
+    # possibly other fields that we get from RADIUS/EAPOL relating to the subscriber
+})
+producer = KafkaProducer(bootstrap_servers="cord-kafka")
+producer.send("authentication.events", event)
+producer.flush()
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