Kerberos Authentication

You can use Kerberos authentication to connect to external systems as well as YARN clusters.

By default, Data Collector uses the user account who started it to connect to external systems. When you enable Kerberos, it can use the Kerberos principal to connect to external systems.

You can configure Kerberos authentication for the following stages:
  • Hadoop FS Standalone origin
  • Kafka Multitopic Consumer origin
  • MapR FS Standalone origin
  • HBase Lookup processor
  • Hive Metadata processor
  • Kudu Lookup processor
  • Cassandra destination, when the DataStax Enterprise Java driver is installed
  • Hadoop FS destination
  • HBase destination
  • Hive Metastore destination
  • Kafka Producer destination
  • Kudu destination
  • MapR DB destination
  • MapR FS destination
  • Solr destination
  • HDFS File Metadata executor
  • MapR FS File Metadata executor
  • MapReduce executor
  • Spark executor

To enable Data Collector to use Kerberos authentication, use the required procedure for your installation type.