Security

SSL Certificate In Splunk

rohitvjoshi
Path Finder

Hi all ,

We are using a clustered environment. We have the SSL certificate enable, which default shipped by Splunk. They are expiring this month.

I checked the web.conf file — over there SSL is enabled, but no certificate path is mentioned. It looks like below, as SSL is enabled but no path is mentioned. Which certificate is it taking ??

[settings]

enableSplunkWebSSL = 1

As per documents, we should have a stanza like below under web.conf.

Turn on SSL:

enableSplunkWebSSL = true

absolute paths may be used here.

privKeyPath = /home/user/certs/myprivatekey.pem
serverCert = /home/user/certs/mycacert.pem

Does Above stanza we have to write when we generate the self signed certificate ?

Thanks
Rohit Joshi

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chrisyounger
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can answer this question using btool. On the box, run this command

./bin/splunk btool web list --debug

in the output that appears, look for the fields you are wondering about.

Hope this helps!

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