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Has anyone else been able to connect Thingworx to a database using Kerberos authentication and provide any tips or high level steps on what files must be created and where?
I'm trying to connect to a Hive database using a Persistence Provider with the "GenericJdbcPersistenceProviderPackage". I've also tried connecting using a "Database" Thing with no luck.
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After learning more about how Kerberos works and the Hive JDBC driver (since I'm connecting to Hive DB), I was able to connect to our Hive instance. I'm using ThingWorx 9.4.1 on RHEL, for reference.
Here are the high level steps it took to get there:
From "Help Center" - "Kerberos Authentication Configuration": https://support.ptc.com/help/thingworx_hc/thingworx_analytics_8/index.html#page/analytics/hdfs_authenticated_config.html
After learning more about how Kerberos works and the Hive JDBC driver (since I'm connecting to Hive DB), I was able to connect to our Hive instance. I'm using ThingWorx 9.4.1 on RHEL, for reference.
Here are the high level steps it took to get there: