The Cassandra endpoints may be configured to require authentication of incoming CQL connections.
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The Cassandra security settings are not reconfigurable, even on upgrade. Reconfiguring any of the below settings will require you to recreate the Rhino VM Automation deployment. |
Authentication
You can configure Cassandra endpoints to require username and password authentication for incoming CQL connections.
To enable authentication, configure the username and password in the product-options
section
for each Rhino VM Automation VNFC in the SDF, as follows.
-
Set the username in the
cassandra-username
field. -
Set the password by specifying a secret ID referring to the password in the
cassandra-password-id
field. See Secrets in the SDF for more information on configuring secrets in the SDF.
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All VNFCs within a site must be configured with the same Cassandra username and password. |
Your Cassandra endpoints must be configured to support authentication, and have a role provisioned with your chosen username and password. See Authentication for more information.