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How do I use self signed SSL with HEC?

andl24
New Member

Similar to some other existing community posts, I am having issues sending POST requests to the https://.../services/collector/event endpoint of my Splunk enterprise server running on AWS after following Splunk guides on creating self signed ssl and using it.

 

Using -k in curl to skip insecure verify works, but including --cacert myselfsignedca does not. I've gone further and even added relevant x509 extensions like SANs with no success. The result from curl:

...

* successfully set certificate verify locations:
* CAfile: ./splunkCA.pem
CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.2 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS alert, Server hello (2):
* SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain
* stopped the pause stream!
* Closing connection 0
curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain
More details here: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html

curl failed to verify the legitimacy of the server and therefore could not
establish a secure connection to it. To learn more about this situation and
how to fix it, please visit the web page mentioned above.

...

 

Any help is appreciated!

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

I don't know why, but it seems that quite many TA's etc. which are using HEC is requested valid official CA-signed certs not self signed. This is probably some kind of statement from Splunk side?

If I recall right there (or in slack) was some time ago one post where someone has succeed to use self signed cert with Splunk_TA_aws as adding own CA cert into local CA store on those hosts. Maybe that can help also you. https://community.splunk.com/t5/All-Apps-and-Add-ons/Splunk-Add-on-for-AWS-Problem-Does-anyone-know-...

Anyhow you should/could create a idea into ideas.splunk.com for this. I suppose quite many will vote it ;-?

r. Ismo

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andl24
New Member

Hi,

I have the same issue running it locally with Docker, not just on AWS. Are self signed certs with HEC supposed to be supported?

ref: https://hub.docker.com/r/splunk/splunk

Thanks

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