SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption helps establish a secure connection between your data source and Atlan. Atlan currently only supports SSL certificates for crawling Tableau.
The following types of SSL certificates are supported:
Self-signed
Paste the public .crt or .cert part of your TLS certificate in the Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) format. For example:
----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----
MIIDazCCAlOgAwIBAgIJAOqRDRz0BxIAMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBCwUAMIGZMQswCQYD
...
...
...
u1Q==
----END CERTIFICATE----
Internal CA
An SSL certificate chain is a sequence of certificates consisting of three parties:
- A root certificate authority,
- One or more intermediate certificate authorities,
- And the server certificate.
Paste the root, intermediate, and server certificates in the following format:
----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----
ABCDE......
----END CERTIFICATE----
----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----
EFGHT......
----END CERTIFICATE----
----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----
NAMNOP......
----END CERTIFICATE----
----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----
KROPS......
----END CERTIFICATE----
- The top certificate is the root certificate
- Followed by the hops in the right sequence
- Ending with server certificate