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DataStax Enterprise 6.8 Security Guide

    • About DSE Advanced Security
    • Security FAQs
    • Security checklists
    • Securing the environment
      • Securing ports
      • Securing the TMP directory
    • Authentication and authorization
      • Configuring authentication and authorization
        • About DSE Unified Authentication
          • Steps for new deployment
          • Steps for production environments
        • Configuring security keyspaces
        • Setting up Kerberos
          • Kerberos guidelines
          • Enabling JCE Unlimited
            • Removing AES-256
          • Preparing DSE nodes for Kerberos
            • DNS and NTP
            • krb5.conf
            • Principal
            • Keytab
        • Enabling authentication and authorization
          • Defining a Kerberos scheme
          • Defining an LDAP scheme
        • Configuring JMX authentication
        • Configuring cache settings
        • Securing schema information
      • Managing database access
        • About RBAC
        • Setting up logins and users
          • Adding a superuser login
          • Adding database users
          • LDAP users and groups
            • LDAP logins
            • LDAP groups
          • Kerberos principal logins
          • Setting up roles for applications
          • Binding a role to an authentication scheme
        • Assigning permissions
          • Database object permissions
            • Data resources
            • Functions and aggregate resources
            • Search indexes
            • Roles
            • Proxy login and execute
            • Authentication schemes
            • DSE Utilities (MBeans)
            • Analytic applications
            • Remote procedure calls
          • Separation of duties
          • Keyspaces and tables
          • Row Level Access Control (RLAC)
          • Search index permissions
          • DataStax Graph keyspace
          • Spark application permissions
          • DataStax Studio permissions
          • Remote procedure calls
          • DSE client-tool spark
          • JMX MBean permissions
          • Deny (denylist) db object permission
          • Restricting access to data
      • Providing credentials from DSE tools
        • About clients
        • Internal and LDAP authentication
          • Command line
          • File
          • Environment variables
          • Using CQLSH
        • Kerberos
          • JAAS configuration file location
          • Keytab
          • Ticket Cache
          • Spark jobs
          • SSTableLoader
          • Graph and gremlin-console
          • dsetool
          • CQLSH
        • Nodetool
        • JConsole
    • Auditing database activity
      • Enabling database auditing
      • Capturing DSE Search HTTP requests
      • Log formats
      • View events from DSE audit table
    • Transparent data encryption
      • About Transparent Data Encryption
      • Configuring local encryption
        • Setting up local encryption keys
        • Encrypting configuration file properties
        • Encrypting system resources
        • Encrypting tables
        • Rekeying existing data
        • Using tools with TDE-encrypted SSTables
        • Troubleshooting encryption key errors
      • Configuring KMIP encryption
      • Encrypting Search indexes
        • Encrypting new Search indexes
        • Encrypting existing Search indexes
        • Tuning encrypted Search indexes
      • Migrating encrypted tables from earlier versions
      • Bulk loading data between TDE-enabled clusters
    • Configuring SSL
      • Steps for configuring SSL
      • Creating SSL certificates, keystores, and truststores
        • Remote keystore provider
        • Local keystore files
      • Securing node-to-node connections
      • Securing client-to-node connections
        • Configuring JMX on the server side
        • nodetool, nodesync, dsetool, and Advanced Replication
        • JConsole (JMX)
        • SSTableloader
        • Connecting to SSL-enabled nodes using cqlsh
      • Enabling SSL encryption for DSEFS
      • Reference: SSL instruction variables
    • Securing Spark connections
  • DataStax Enterprise 6.8 Security Guide
  • Authentication and authorization
  • Managing database access
  • Assigning permissions
  • Database object permissions
  • DSE Utilities (MBeans)

JMX Resources (MBeans) for DSE Utilities

After enabling Java Management Extensions (JMX) authentication, DataStax Enterprise (DSE) utilities and other third-party tools require MBean access to execute commands. The tools use JMX MBeans to remotely gather information and execute requests.

Access is controlled using modelled hierarchy. Granting and revoking a privilege on a top level object automatically allows the same permission on all ancestors.

MBeans have the following modelled hierarchy for access control:

cql mbean hierarchy

MBREAD, MBWRITE, and equivalents are deprecated.

Synopsis

Use the following syntax to grant access:

  • ALL MBEANS

    GRANT <permission>[, <permission> ...]
    ON ALL MBEANS
    TO <role_name>;

    where permissions are ALL PERMISSIONS, DESCRIBE, EXECUTE, MODIFY, and SELECT.

  • MBEANS <pattern>

    GRANT <permission>[, <permission> ...]
    ON MBEANS '<class_name>:name=<value>,type=<value>'
    TO <role_name>;

    where DSE supports wildcard characters in the value name to match one or more MBeans and permissions are ALL PERMISSIONS, DESCRIBE, EXECUTE, MODIFY, and SELECT.

  • MBEAN <name>

    GRANT <permission>[, <permission> ...]
    ON MBEAN '<class_name>:name=<value>,type=<value>'
    TO <role_name>;

    where permissions are ALL PERMISSIONS, DESCRIBE, EXECUTE, MODIFY, and SELECT.

  • Revoke permissions syntax:

    REVOKE <permission_name>
    ON <resource>
    FROM <role_name>;

Permission matrix

Privilege Resource Permissions

ALL PERMISSIONS

ALL MBEANS

All operations that are applicable on all MBEANS.

ALL PERMISSIONS

MBEAN <name>

All operations that are applicable on the MBEAN.

ALL PERMISSIONS

MBEANS <pattern>

All operations that are applicable on MBEANS that match the wildcard pattern.

DESCRIBE

ALL MBEANS

Use MBQUERYNAMES or MBINSTANCEOF to retrieve information about any mbean.

DESCRIBE

MBEAN <name>

Use MBQUERYNAMES or MBINSTANCEOF to retrieve information about a named mbean.

DESCRIBE

MBEANS <pattern>

Use MBQUERYNAMES or MBINSTANCEOF to retrieve information about any mbean matching a wildcard pattern.

EXECUTE

ALL MBEANS

Use MBEXECUTE or MBINVOKE on any mbean.

EXECUTE

MBEAN <name>

Use MBEXECUTE or MBINVOKE on named mbean.

EXECUTE

MBEANS <pattern>

Use MBEXECUTE or MBINVOKE on any mbean matching a wildcard pattern.

MODIFY

ALL MBEANS

Call MBSET on any mbean.

MODIFY

MBEAN <name>

Call MBSET on named mbean.

MODIFY

MBEANS <pattern>

Call MBSET on any mbean matching a wildcard pattern.

SELECT

ALL MBEANS

Use MBGET on any mbean.

SELECT

MBEAN <name>

Use MBGET on named mbean.

SELECT

MBEANS <pattern>

Use MBGET on any mbean matching a wildcard pattern.

Authentication schemes Analytic applications

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