# \*Error 9002: SSL connection is required. Please specify SSL options and retry.

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/error-9002-ssl-connection-is-required-please-specify-ssl-options-and-retry/6760>\
**Category:** PMM 1.x\
**Created:** [December 25, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/error-9002-ssl-connection-is-required-please-specify-ssl-options-and-retry/6760 "2018-12-25T08:24:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![kamal2222ahmed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kamal2222ahmed](https://forums.percona.com/u/kamal2222ahmed)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2018, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/error-9002-ssl-connection-is-required-please-specify-ssl-options-and-retry/6760/1 "2018-12-25T08:24:53Z")

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I have installed percona pmm monitoring using Docker:  
$ docker ps  
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES  
345ed86acdad docksal/ssh-agent:1.2 “docker-entrypoint.s…” 28 hours ago Up 16 hours (healthy) docksal-ssh-agent  
4f8906245a0c percona/pmm-server:latest “/opt/entrypoint.sh” 2 weeks ago Up 16 hours 0.0.0.0:80-\>80/tcp, 443/tcp pmm-server

and trying to setup/access remote mysql instance on Azure, but getting error:

\*Error 9002: SSL connection is required. Please specify SSL options and retry.  
Not sure where do i setup ssl option in pmm  
Thanks,  
-Kamal.

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Coburn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/michael_coburn/32/18_2.png) [@Michael\_Coburn](https://forums.percona.com/u/Michael_Coburn)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/error-9002-ssl-connection-is-required-please-specify-ssl-options-and-retry/6760/2 "2019-02-04T14:09:59Z")

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Hi [kamal2222ahmed](https://percona.vanillacommunities.com/profile/x/x/42564)

Apologies for the tardiness of the reply, I don’t have a solution for you but allow me to reach out to an Engineer who can provide a perspective. Thank you for your patience!

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**Author:** ![Rhunton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c67d28/32.png) [@Rhunton](https://forums.percona.com/u/Rhunton)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/error-9002-ssl-connection-is-required-please-specify-ssl-options-and-retry/6760/3 "2019-11-08T06:22:02Z")

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Hi - Was this ever resolved? I’m attempting to do the same, but can’t find SSL options for “pmm-admin add” and there are no SSL parameters available when adding a remote database in the PMM GUI.