Disabling Cephx

If your cluster environment is relatively safe, you can offset the computation expense of the running authentication, by disabling Cephx.

The following procedure describes how to disable Cephx.
Important: IBM recommends enabling authentication.

However, it may be easier during setup or troubleshooting to temporarily disable authentication.

Prerequisites

  • A running IBM Storage Ceph cluster.

  • Root-level access to the Ceph Monitor node.

Procedure

  1. Disable cephx authentication by setting the following options in the [global] section of the Ceph configuration file:

    Example 

        auth_cluster_required = none
    auth_service_required = none
    auth_client_required = none

  2. Start or restart the Ceph storage cluster.