Enabling SSL/TLS for OpsCenter and Agent communication - Tarball Installations

To enable SSL for tarball installations, edit the configuration file and run a script to generate the keys used by OpsCenter and the DataStax Agents.

openssl x509 -outform der -in /install_location/ssl/opscenter.pem -out /install_location/ssl/opscenter.der 

1. If the SSL files already exist in the install_location/ssl directory, they are not automatically recreated. Before running setup.py, remove the old SSL files from that directory.
2. Run the OpsCenter setup.py script:

   sudo install_location/bin/jython/setup.py

   The script generates the SSL keys and certificates used by the OpsCenter daemon and the DataStax Agents to communicate with one another in the following directory: install_location/ssl
3. Open opscenterd.conf in an editor and add an [agents] section with the use_ssl option set to true.

   sudo vi install_location/conf/opscenterd.conf

   [agents]
   use_ssl = true
   ssl_keyfile =  install_location/ssl/opscenter.key
   ssl_certfile = install_location/ssl/opscenter.der
   agent_keyfile = install_location/ssl/agentKeyStore
   agent_keyfile_raw = install_location/ssl/agentKeyStore.key
   agent_certfile = install_location/ssl/agentKeyStore.der
   

   Note: The agent_keyfile_raw file is used only HA configurations.
4. Restart the OpsCenter daemon.
5. If you need to connect to a cluster in which DataStax Agents have already been deployed, log in to each of the nodes and reconfigure the address.yaml file.
   Tip: If you do not want to manually edit all of the node configuration files, follow the procedure to install DataStax Agents automatically.
   1. On each node in the cluster, copy install_location/ssl/agentKeyStore from the OpsCenter machine to agent_install_location/ssl/agentKeyStore.

      scp /opt/opscenter/ssl/agentKeyStore user@node:agent_install_location/ssl/agentKeyStore

      Where user is the user ID on the node, and node is either the host name of the node or its IP address.
   2. Log in to each node in the cluster using ssh.

      ssh user@node

      Where user is the user ID on the node, and node is either the host name of the node or its IP address.
   3. Edit the address.yaml file, changing the value of use_ssl to 1.

      sudo vi /var/lib/datastax-agent/conf/address.yaml

      use_ssl: 1

      If your keystore and truststore files reside in a different location from the default, define the following parameters to indicate the location of the keystore and truststore, plus the password for each:

      opscenter_ssl_truststore: /etc/datastax-agent/key/dse-truststore.jks
      opscenter_ssl_truststore_password: truststore_password
      opscenter_ssl_keystore: /etc/datastax-agent/key/keystore.jks
      opscenter_ssl_keystore_password: keystore_password
      

   4. Restart the DataStax Agent.

      sudo install_location/bin/datastax-agent

6. After opscenterd and all DataStax Agents have been configured and restarted, verify proper connection through the Agent Status tab.