Configure Outgoing SSL Connections

To configure the connector to send data to other components (for example Connector Framework Server) over SSL, follow these steps.

To configure outgoing SSL connections

  1. Open the Facebook Workplace Connector configuration file in a text editor.
  2. Specify the name of a section in the configuration file where the SSL settings are provided:

    • To send data to an ingestion server over SSL, set the IngestSSLConfig parameter in the [Ingestion] section. To send data from a single fetch task to an ingestion server over SSL, set IngestSSLConfig in a [TaskName] section.

    • To send data to a Distributed Connector over SSL, set the SSLConfig parameter in the [DistributedConnector] section.
    • To send data to a View Server over SSL, set the SSLConfig parameter in the [ViewServer] section.
    • You can use the same settings for each connection. For example:

      [Ingestion]
      IngestSSLConfig=SSLOptions
      
      [DistributedConnector]
      SSLConfig=SSLOptions
  3. Create a new section in the configuration file. The name of the section must match the name you specified in the IngestSSLConfig or SSLConfig parameter. Then specify the SSL settings to use.

    SSLMethod The SSL protocol to use.
    SSLCertificate (Optional) The SSL certificate to use (in PEM format).
    SSLPrivateKey (Optional) The private key for the SSL certificate (in PEM format).

    For example:

    [SSLOptions]
    SSLMethod=TLSV1.3
    SSLCertificate=host1.crt
    SSLPrivateKey=host1.key
  4. Save and close the configuration file.
  5. Restart the connector.