topic Re: What is the most simple way to enable SSL communication between my forwarders and indexers? in Security

What is the most simple way to enable SSL communication between my forwarders and indexers?

jbsplunk — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:26:35 GMT

Does anyone know where I can find a working configuration that shows splunk2splunk using ssl? I would really appreciate a working example

Re: What is the most simple way to enable SSL communication between my forwarders and indexers?

Chubbybunny — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:38:36 GMT

you got it.

Using the built-in certs on our UF's and indexers. We've managed to get SSL working for splunkTOsplunk communication using the following in/outputs.conf

Indexer: $splunk_home/etc/system/local/inputs.conf

[default]
host = indexerA1.chubbybunny.com

[splunktcp-ssl:9997]
compressed = true

[SSL]
password = password
requireClientCert = false
rootCA = $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/ca.pem
serverCert = $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/server.pem

Forwarder: $splunk_home/etc/system/local/outputs.conf

[tcpout]
defaultGroup = splunkssl

[tcpout:splunkssl]
compressed = true
server = indexerA1.chubbybunny.com:9997
sslCertPath = $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/server.pem
sslPassword = password
sslRootCAPath = $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/ca.pem
sslVerifyServerCert = false

*while this simply secures the communication channel between the two, using the default certs comes with a risk.
Also - the default password for both (server.pem & ca.pem) is: password

Re: What is the most simple way to enable SSL communication between my forwarders and indexers?

jworthington_sp — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:45:29 GMT

If you prefer to use your own certificates, you can also check out the following topic in the Securing Splunk guide:

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0.1/Security/ConfigureSplunkforwardingtousesignedcertificates

Re: What is the most simple way to enable SSL communication between my forwarders and indexers?

georgen_splunk — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 18:41:56 GMT

updated for Enterprise versions 7.1

Indexer: $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/inputs.conf

[default]
host = indexerA1.chubbybunny.com

[splunktcp-ssl:9997]
compressed = true

[SSL]
sslPassword = password
requireClientCert = false
sslRootCAPath = $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/ca.pem
serverCert = $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/server.pem

Forwarder: $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/outputs.conf

[tcpout]
defaultGroup = splunkssl

[tcpout:splunkssl]
compressed = true
server = indexerA1.chubbybunny.com:9997
clientCert = $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/server.pem
sslPassword = password
sslRootCAPath = $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/ca.pem
sslVerifyServerCert = false

Re: What is the most simple way to enable SSL communication between my forwarders and indexers?

sayash27 — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:24:51 GMT

here sslPassword is of ca.pem or server.pem? In case we have different password then which password we are going to use.