Hi James, Communication between agent and collector is HTTP POST. Therefore it¹s fairly easy to add SSL encryption on top. In Chukwa Agent code, there is a class called org.apache.hadoop.chukwa.datacollection.sender.ChukwaHttpSender.java. This is where to begin the modification to turn it into https communication. For collector, the package is located in org.apache.hadoop.chukwa.datacollection.collector. We currently have no plan to implement SSL certificate management for Chukwa Agent and collector, but proposal is welcome.
Regards, Eric On 8/22/10 8:13 AM, "James K Kochuba" <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know if/when Chukwa is looking at securing the communication > between the agents and collectors? > This would be: > 1) encrypting the connection communication > 2) authenticating the agents to the specific collector > > If this is not in plan, does anyone have recommendations on the best way to > modify the chukwa code to provide this capability? > > Thanks, > > James
