Enabling Knox authentication
The auto-discovery function in Cloudera Manager does not support SSB in this release, you need to manually configure Knox and SSB to enable Knox authentication.
Apache Knox Gateway is used to help ensure perimeter security for SSB. With Knox, enterprises can confidently extend the SSB UI and API endpoints to new users without Kerberos complexities. Knox provides a central gateway and has varying degrees of authorization, authentication, SSL, and SSO capabilities to enable a single access point for SSB.
- Install and configure Knox on your cluster. For more information, see the Installing Apache Knox documentation.
- Enable Kerberos authentication for SSB. For more information, see Enabling Kerberos authentication section.
Cloudera Manager does not support simplified topology management (also known as auto-discovery) for the current SSB release. You need to manually configure Knox to be able to integrate with SSB, this consist of the following high level steps:
