https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-Best-Test-if-my-SSL-Certificate-is-valid/m-p/133525#M27441 <P>First confirm that Splunk recognises the certificate shipped by default</P> <P>Then you can try with this simple python script and verify if the connection is getting refused:</P> <P>=====================</P> <PRE><CODE>import httplib2 for i in range(1,500): print i response, content = httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True).request('https://127.0.0.1:8089',) print response,content </CODE></PRE> Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:26:33 GMT mzorzi 2015-02-09T10:26:33Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-Best-Test-if-my-SSL-Certificate-is-valid/m-p/133524#M27440 <P>I am trying to enable Splunk forwarder via SSL, I received the message:</P> <PRE><CODE>02-06-2015 10:10:45.415 -0700 ERROR TcpOutputFd - Connection to host=176.23.34.15:9997 failed. sock_error = 0. SSL Error = error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed 02-06-2015 10:11:15.312 -0700 ERROR TcpOutputFd - Connection to host=176.23.34.15:9997 failed. sock_error = 0. SSL Error = error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed </CODE></PRE> <P>Why is that?</P> Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:24:54 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-Best-Test-if-my-SSL-Certificate-is-valid/m-p/133524#M27440 mzorzi 2015-02-09T10:24:54Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-Best-Test-if-my-SSL-Certificate-is-valid/m-p/133525#M27441 <P>First confirm that Splunk recognises the certificate shipped by default</P> <P>Then you can try with this simple python script and verify if the connection is getting refused:</P> <P>=====================</P> <PRE><CODE>import httplib2 for i in range(1,500): print i response, content = httplib2.Http(disable_ssl_certificate_validation=True).request('https://127.0.0.1:8089',) print response,content </CODE></PRE> Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:26:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-to-Best-Test-if-my-SSL-Certificate-is-valid/m-p/133525#M27441 mzorzi 2015-02-09T10:26:33Z