This is the documentation for Cloudera Manager 5.1.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.

Enabling HDFS Encrypted Transport

Required Role:

To enable encryption, proceed as follows:
  1. Enable Hadoop security using Kerberos.
  2. Select the HDFS service.
  3. Click the Configuration tab.
  4. Expand the Service-Wide category and click the Security subcategory.
  5. Check the Enable Data Transfer Encryption checkbox and in Hadoop RPC Protection property, click the privacy radio button.
  6. Click the Save Changes button.
  7. Restart the HDFS service.
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