Securing the Pipeline

The certificate pair, once imported using the steps above, can also be used to encrypt Pipeline traffic: the captured session data flowing between the Discover servers.

These Pipeline connections are not considered to be inter-process connections, and enabling TLS will not cause them to be encrypted. They must be secured seprately by modifying the pipeline configuring files on the Discover servers.

Inter-process communication and Pipeline connections betwen the servers both use the same certificate pair, but are independent: inter-process communications can be secured and pipeline data left unencrypted, and vice versa. Although a certificate pair must have been imported, TLS does not have to be enabled for the pipeline to be secured using these certificates.