4.7 Security Encryption

MDS feature supports user to send statistics data to remote Kafka server securely. It supports the user to configure anyone of the following protocols:

Table 4-3 List of Protocols to connect to Kafka

Protocol Name	Security
PLAINTEXT	No
SSL	Yes
SASL_PLAINTEXT	Yes
SASL_SSL	Yes

If the user configures any protocol other than PLAINTEXT, then the user has to provide additional details which the protocol requires. Detail description of properties which are specific to protocol is available in the MDS Managed Objects section.