Managing Connections

Scenario

This topic describes how to perform the following operations: Adding a Connection, Viewing Connections, Editing a Data Connection, and Deleting a Data Connection.

Limitations and Constraints

• After a data connection is added, only the parameters of the selected data source type can be modified. The data source type cannot be changed.

Adding a Connection

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Security & Compliance > SecMaster.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Workspaces > Management. In the workspace list, click the name of the target workspace.
   Figure 1 Workspace management page
   

4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Settings > Collection Management.
   Figure 2 Collection management page
   

5. On the Connections tab, click Add.
6. Add a data connection source.

   In the Source column, select the source of the data source type and set parameters based on the selected type.

   The following data source types are supported: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), File, User Data Protocol (UDP), Object Storage Service (OBS), Message Queue (Kafka), and SecMaster Pipeline.

7. Add a data source connection destination.

   Click the Target tab, select the destination of the data source type, and then set the parameters according to the selected type.

   The following data source types are supported: File, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Data Protocol (UDP), Message Queue (Kafka), Object Storage Service (OBS), and SecMaster Pipeline.

8. After the setting is complete, click OK in the lower right corner of the page to confirm the setting.

Viewing Connections

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Security & Compliance > SecMaster.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Workspaces > Management. In the workspace list, click the name of the target workspace.
   Figure 3 Workspace management page
   

4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Settings > Collection Management.
   Figure 4 Collection management page
   

5. On the Connections tab, view connection details.

   Table 1 Connection parameters

   Parameter	Description
   Connection Name	Connection name
   Connection Type	Connection type
   Connection Info	Information about a connection
   Reference Channels	Number of channels that are referenced by the connection
   Description	Description of the connection
   Operation	Operations such as editing or deleting connections

Editing a Data Connection

After a data connection is added, only the parameters of the selected data source type can be modified. The data source type cannot be changed.

For example, if you select File as the data source type when adding a data connection, you can modify only the parameters in the file type but cannot change the File type.

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Security & Compliance > SecMaster.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Workspaces > Management. In the workspace list, click the name of the target workspace.
   Figure 5 Workspace management page
   

4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Settings > Collection Management.
   Figure 6 Collection management page
   

5. On the Connections page, locate the row that contains the target connection and click Edit in the Operation column.
6. On the Select Data Source Type page, edit the parameters of the data source type.
7. After the setting is complete, click OK in the lower right corner of the page to confirm the setting.

Deleting a Data Connection

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the page and choose Security & Compliance > SecMaster.
3. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Workspaces > Management. In the workspace list, click the name of the target workspace.
   Figure 7 Workspace management page
   

4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Settings > Collection Management.
   Figure 8 Collection management page
   

5. On the Connections page, locate the row that contains the target connection and click Delete in the Operation column.
6. In the displayed dialog box, click OK.