Generating Telemetry Publisher access credentials
Steps for generating access credentials that enable communication between your Workload clusters and Cloudera Observability.
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Verify that you are logged in to the Cloudera Observability web UI.
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Log in to Cloudera in a supported browser.
The Cloudera Cloud web interface landing page opens.
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From the Your Enterprise Data Cloud landing
page, select the Observability tile.
The Cloudera Observability landing page opens.
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Log in to Cloudera in a supported browser.
- From the Cloudera Observability Environments page, in the top right corner, click Connect Cluster to generate an altus key for Cloudera Observability.
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On the Add New Cluster Connection page, click
Generate Access Credentials to add your Cloudera Observability account to Cloudera Manager.
The Telemetry Publisher Access Key ID and Private Key credentials are created and their respective fields populated with the credential text. You can record these values to connect Cloudera Manager to Cloudera Observability.
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Do one of the following:
- Manually save the access credentials:
- Record the Access Key ID credential text and store it somewhere safe. You will be required to supply this value when you enable the Telemetry Publisher service on your Workload Cluster.
- In a new text file, copy and paste the Private Key credential text exactly as provided without trailing spaces and then name and save the file somewhere safe. You will be required to supply this file when you enable the Telemetry Publisher service on your Workload Cluster.
- Download the credentials file.
- Click Download Credentials File.
- Go to your Downloads directory.
- Open the file in a text editor and record the Access Key ID credential text and store it somewhere safe.
- Remove the text containing the Access Key ID, starting from
[default] and ending with
cdp_private_key=.
The credentials file should now only contain the Private Key credentials text, starting from
-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
and ending with-----END PRIVATE KEY-----
. - Save the file somewhere safe. You will be required to supply this file when you enable the Telemetry Publisher service on your Workload Cluster.
- Manually save the access credentials:
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Log in to Cloudera Manager and use the Access Key ID and
Private Key stored in Step 4 to set up the external
accounts.
For information, see Enabling the telemetry network communication for Cloudera Observability.