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How do I disable certificate validation with Node.js agent?

CommunityUser
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi,

I am trying to find something equivalent to Javaagent's appdynamics.force.default.ssl.certificate.validation in the node.js agent. But couldn't find it in the documentation.

Kindly advise.

Thanks,

Ashish

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Kyle_Furlong
Contributor

Hi Ashish,

There is currently no way to disable this for the Node.js agent. It's possible that it will be available in the future, but we highly recommend encrypting the data transfer between controller and agent, and agent and controller through the certificateFile agent option.

Regards,

Kyle

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CommunityUser
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Thanks for the information, Kyle.

A couple of observations from my attempts to get it working:

1. The value of parameter 'certificateFile' has to be the path of the SSL certificate (file) itself, not the path of directory containing this file (as mentioned in the documentation)

2. The SSL certificate file has to be named "cacerts.jks" (only). Any other filename does not work.

A query:

The 

require("appdynamics").profile({ ..... })

 needs to be the first 'require' in the application. Is there a way to get around this (as in, have it as not the first require)?

Thanks,

Ashish

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Kyle_Furlong
Contributor

Hey Ashish,

This is mostly a requirement, the agent instruments the require statement itself to instrument a set of common Node.js libraries. If these are require'd first, the agent instrumentation will have less opportunity to wire things up correctly. One option is to use the -r parameter with the node command to preload the appdynamics module and any of its config options and dependencies.

Please let me know in case you have any further questions or concerns.

Thanks and regards,

Kyle

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