As a cheap solution you can always setup a ssh tunnel through port forwarding to do this outside of flume...though it would need to be managed for timeouts/network errors
Inder On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, Mike Percy wrote: > No network encryption support yet but there is a patch up at > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLUME-997 for this functionality. > You are welcome to take a look and provide any comments. Not sure what you > mean by #2, you would have to share more about your requirements / use case. > > Regards, > Mike > > On Mar 11, 2013, at 11:26 PM, Deepak Tiwari > <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');>> > wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I have to install Flume and ensure that data transfer from Agent to >> Collector to Sink is secure enough. I noticed that some changes related ssl >> in FLUME-13 and that is very old. I see some discussion at >> http://search-hadoop.com/m/Unjdh2ovsNE/v=plain but I dont know if there >> is any update after. >> >> I request someone, if possible to give a qualified answer to >> >> 1. Is encryption possible in the Agent to Collector to Sink communication. >> 2. If not, does that mean RPC communication is secure enough if not >> encrypted. >> 3. Any pointers for security related design. >> >> Thanks very much for reading this much and appreciate someone's insight. >> >> Regards, >> >> Deepak >> >> -- - Inder "You are average of the 5 people you spend the most time with"
