HBase Security Channel Encryption

You can enable security channel encryption to encrypt data transmission. This section describes how to enable the security channel for an HBase cluster.

Enabling Channel Encryption

Log in to the CloudTable console.
Click in the upper left corner to select a region.
Click Buy Cluster in the upper right corner.
Check whether Enable Channel Encryption (which is toggled on by default) is toggled on after completing other configurations.

Figure 1 Enabling channel encryption
Complete the parameter setting and click Next.
Confirm the cluster specification order information on the displayed page and submit the order. After the cluster is created, go to its details page to view the channel status.

Procedure for Connecting to an HBase Security Cluster

Log in to the CloudTable console.
Click in the upper left corner to select a region.
Choose Help > Download hbase2.x Client to download the client.
Install the client and prepare an ECS.
Use the SSH login tool (such as PuTTY) to log in to the Linux ECS through the EIP.

For details about how to log in to the ECS, see "Login Using an SSH Password" in Logging In to a Linux ECS of the Elastic Cloud Server User Guide.
Install the client downloaded in Step 3. For details, see Manually Installing a Client. (You can also use One-Click Deployment to install the client.)
Go to the client installation directory and modify the hbase-env.sh file.
- Go to the hbase-client folder and view the conf folder.
```
cd hbase-client
```
- Go to the conf folder and edit the hbase-env.sh file.
  - Go to the conf folder.
```
cd conf/
```
  - Edit the hbase-env.sh file.
```
vi hbase-env.sh
```
  - Add the following content to the end of the hbase-env.sh file:
```
CLIENT_JVMFLAGS="-Dzookeeper.clientCnxnSocket=org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxnSocketNetty -Dzookeeper.client.secure=true"
export HBASE_OPTS="${CLIENT_JVMFLAGS} ${HBASE_OPTS}"
```
  - Click Ecs to exit the editing page.
  - Save the added content.
```
:wq
```
Go to the client installation directory to configure the client. Add the following configurations to the hbase-site.xml file in the conf directory on the client:
- Edit the hbase-site.xml file.
```
vi hbase-site.xml
```
- Add the following content to the end of the hbase-site.xml file:
```
<property>
    <name>hbase.rpc.protection</name>
    <value>privacy</value>
</property>
```
- Click Ecs to exit the editing page.
- Save the added content.
```
:wq
```
Connect to the HBase cluster.
- Configure the ZooKeeper address in the configuration file. For details, see Configuring the ZooKeeper Address.
- Start the shell to access the cluster.
  Run the bin/hbase shell command to start the shell to access the cluster.