Ves collector publishing to DmaaP

I was trying to understand how the VES collector works. for sample data if the domain is fault it is publishing onto the kafka topic "unauthenticated.SEC_FAULT_OUTPUT" . If i try the same for syslog, it doesn't publish anywhere. 

I do notice that in DmaaPConfig.json no other topic is mentioned other than measurement and fault. 

What if i want to publish the data i send from a device into a specific topic  onto the DmaaP bus, how do i go about it? (for the VES validator part i can use the OtherFields tab in the schema to dump my data, but would want the data to sit on a separate topic) 

Any leads on this would be helpful