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The Security configuration section is only required if Core is being installed.
  1. Enter and confirm an Admin Password. It must meet the password strength requirements.
    This is the password used to access Reveal, Workbench, KAgent, and GAdmin as the default administrative user.
  2. Select an SSL Mode:
    • Cert/key setup not required — Kinetica will not require SSL certificate/key creation/upload and SSL will not be enabled
    • User-provided cert/key per node — user must upload an SSL certificate and key for each node; Kinetica copies the cert/key pair to /opt/gpudb/certs, enables HTTPD, and configures HTTPD to use HTTPS
    • Generate self-signed cert/key per node — KAgent generates a self-signed certificate and key for each node and places it in /opt/gpudb/certs, enables HTTPD, and configures HTTPD to use HTTPS
  3. Select an Authentication type and fill the fields as necessary:
    • None — no authentication or authorization
    • LDAP — configures Kinetica to authenticate via LDAP; requires authentication to connect to the database, enables authorization, enables external authentication, automatically creates users in the database for LDAP users, and automatically grants roles in the database to LDAP users
    • Active Directory — configures Kinetica to authenticate via Microsoft Active Directory; requires authentication to connect to the database, enables authorization, enables external authentication, automatically creates users in the database for Active Directory users, and automatically grants roles in the database to Active Directory users
    • Kerberos — configures Kinetica to authenticate via Kerberos; requires authentication to connect to the database, enables authorization, enables external authentication, automatically creates users in the database for Kerberos users, and automatically grants roles in the database to Kerberos users
    • OAuth — configures Kinetica to authenticate via an OAuth service; requires authentication to connect to the database, enables authorization, enables external authentication, automatically creates user in the database for OAuth users, and automatically grants roles in the database to OAuth users
    No SSL or authentication is not recommended! For more information on security configurations and settings as well as how to manually configure Kinetica for a secure setup, see Security Configuration.
  4. Click Next.