Should window .pfx & .cer certificates be converted to .pem for fowarder to work with SSL?

[jimmy6067]

I'm troubleshooting the issues I have with SSL not working with universal forwarder. Could someone please answer the following questions:

If UF is being deployed on a windows box, do the win. certs need to be converted. The Windows cert file types that I have include .pfx (for the client) and .cer (for the root CA cert). Also If I do need to convert them what is the best approach?...Openssl?

[hexx · Accepted solution]

Yes, the certificates should be converted to the .pem format, an operation that you should be able to perform with openssl. For more details on how to configure Splunk forwarding to use SSLcertificates signed by a 3rd party authority, please read the following tutorial.

[hexx]

Glad to hear it's working!

[jimmy6067]

Hexx..you have been such a great help. After I changed all the certs to .pem, my UF on my test system started sending encrypted data to my splunk box.

[hexx]

Indeed, certificates are OS-agnostic.

[jimmy6067]

Thanks for the response!!! So when installing forwarder on systems...certs should always be .pem regardless of the operating system.