Configuring a universal connector by using a Central Manager

12.1 and later You can centrally manage the Guardium® Managed Units where the Universal Connector is installed.

  • By default, the option to centrally manage the Universal Connectors is enabled which automatically disables the legacy Configuring Universal Connector page.
  • The legacy Configuring Universal Connector page is enabled only when you are upgrading to Guardium Data Protection version 12.1 and the Universal Connector data source is configured before the upgrade.
  • If you are upgrading to Guardium Data Protection version 12.1, and you previously have not configured any universal connectors, the traditional Configure Universal Connector page is disabled. If you want to use the legacy Configure Universal Connector page to configure the Universal Connectors, use the grdapi modify_guard_param and update the LEGACY_UC_CONFIG_ENABLED parameter as follows:
    grdapi modify_guard_param paramName=LEGACY_UC_CONFIG_ENABLED paramValue=1
  • If you are upgrading to Guardium Data Protection version 12.1 and you have a Universal Connector that is enabled on a collector, use the traditional Configuring Universal Connector page to configure the Universal Connector. In this case, you cannot install the data source profiles by using the Central Manager until you manually delete the Universal Connector configurations on the collector and disable the traditional mode by using the GuardAPI modify_guard_param. To disable the traditional mode, update the LEGACY_UC_CONFIG_ENABLED parameter as follows:
    grdapi modify_guard_param paramName=LEGACY_UC_CONFIG_ENABLED paramValue=0
Note: The modify_guard_param API is available with the Guardium Data Protection 12.1 version (fresh install) as well as Guardium Platform Upgrade flows.

Available plug-ins

Guardium Data Protection provides the following preinstalled plug-ins that you can use to create profiles by using the Central Manager workflow.

The availability of the per-installed plug-ins depends on the combination of Guardium Data Protection version and Universal Connector patch installed on Guardium Data Protection. For more information on patches, see Universal connector patches.

Following plug-ins are available on Guardium Data Protection version 12.1 with no Universal Connector patch installed.
  • Aurora MySQL over CloudWatch Logs Input
  • AWS MSSQL over JDBC
  • Azure Postgres over Event Hub
  • Dynamo over CloudWatch Logs
  • Firebase over Google Pub/Sub
  • MongoDB over Filebeat
  • MySQL Over Filebeat
  • Postgres over Kafka
  • Postgres over SQS
  • S3 over CloudWatch Logs
Following plug-ins are available on Guardium Data Protection version 12.1 with Universal Connector patch 1006 installed.
  • Aurora MySQL over CloudWatch Logs Input
  • AWS MSSQL over JDBC
  • Azure Postgres over Event Hub
  • Dynamo over CloudWatch Logs
  • Firebase over Google Pub/Sub
  • MongoDB over Filebeat
  • MySQL Over Filebeat
  • Postgres over Kafka
  • Postgres over SQS
  • S3 over CloudWatch Logs
  • OUA over JDBC connect
Next, create a data source profile. For more information, see Creating data source profiles.