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Why am I getting a Splunk JAVA SDK handshake_failure trying to log in to Splunk remotely?

junwhuan
New Member

I am using the JAVA SDK and the example online. I tried to login the remote internal Splunk, but get error message:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
at com.splunk.HttpService.send(HttpService.java:345)
at com.splunk.Service.send(Service.java:1268)
at com.splunk.HttpService.post(HttpService.java:243)
at com.splunk.Service.login(Service.java:1099)
at com.splunk.Service.login(Service.java:1079)
at com.nokia.here.ccod.padashboard.splunk.SplunkTest.main(SplunkTest.java:19)
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:174)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:136)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.recvAlert(SSLSocketImpl.java:1822)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1004)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1188)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1215)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1199)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:476)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.jav...
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1031)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:230)
at com.splunk.HttpService.send(HttpService.java:338)
... 5 more

However, I have fully tested the login function with NODEJS SDK and Curl command. No problem to login the remote Splunk. Can any one answer my question? Thank you!

I downloaded the SDK from splunk website and it is splunk-sdk-java-1.3.1.jar And here is the code:
ServiceArgs loginArgs = new ServiceArgs();
loginArgs.setUsername("xxxx");
loginArgs.setPassword("xxxx");
loginArgs.setHost("xxxx");
loginArgs.setPort(8089);
loginArgs.setScheme("https");

    // Create a Service instance and log in with the argument map
    Service service = new Service(loginArgs);
    service.login();
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ntbahriti_splun
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Use the static method connect() with Service:

ServiceArgs loginArgs = new ServiceArgs();
loginArgs.setUsername("xxxx");
loginArgs.setPassword("xxxx");
loginArgs.setHost("xxxx");
loginArgs.setPort(8089);
loginArgs.setScheme("https");
Service service = Service.connect(loginArgs);

See a full sample at https://answers.splunk.com/answers/209379/no-appropriate-protocol-protocol-is-disabled-or-ci.html

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