Xymon Mailing List Archive search

[E] Re: Support for TLS v1.1 and 1.2?

list Henrik Størner
Wed, 8 Jun 2016 09:14:25 +0200
Message-Id: <user-90637e960ff2@xymon.invalid>

Hi,

Xymon asks OpenSSL to connect using any available SSL/TLS protocol and this should auto-negotiate to whatever protocol both sides support, which is what SSL/TLS clients (browsers etc) would normally do.

This is different from what you do with the command-line tests below; you explicitly request one of the TLS 1.x methods, so auto-negotiate is turned off. Could you running this command without the "-tls*" option?

Have you tried to configure Xymon to specifically use TLS 1? Put "httpst://www.example.com/" in hosts.cfg (the the 't' added to https). This will specifically request a TLSv1 connection. You are right that Xymon does not have similar ways to request TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 connections.


Regards,
Henrik


Den 07-06-2016 kl. 16:26 skrev Gore, David W (David):
Hi Henrik,

It is. Specifically I use this:

openssl s_client -connect xymon:443 -tls1 2>/dev/null | grep Renegotiation

Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported

openssl s_client -connect xymon:443 -tls1_1 2>/dev/null | grep Renegotiation

Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported

openssl s_client -connect xymon:443 -tls1_2 2>/dev/null | grep Renegotiation

Secure Renegotiation IS supported

This is what xymon logs in xymonnet.log which you can also see alerting for the xymonnet column on the web page:

2016-06-07 14:09:53.879678 Unspecified SSL error in SSL_connect to https (47873/tcp) on host my.ip_1.goes.here: error:1409442E:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert protocol version

2016-06-07 14:14:41.970374 Unspecified SSL error in SSL_connect to https (47873/tcp) on host my.ip_2.goes.here: error:1409442E:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert protocol version

2016-06-07 14:14:41.970753 Unspecified SSL error in SSL_connect to https (47873/tcp) on host my.ip_2.goes.here: error:1409442E:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:tlsv1 alert protocol version

This is Mark’s post:

http://lists.xymon.com/pipermail/xymon/2015-April/041568.html

My guess is, Xymon doesn’t properly support the minor versions of TLS?

*From:*Henrik Størner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Tuesday, June 7, 2016 9:51 AM
https://xymon1.domain.com <https://xymon1.domain.com/>*To:* Gore, David W (David); xymon at xymon.com
*Subject:* [E] Re: [Xymon] Support for TLS v1.1 and 1.2?

Hi David,

Xymon uses the openssl library on the Xymon server to do SSL/TLS. So the most basic of tests would be to run "openssl s_client -connect xymon1.domain.com:443" to see if your OpenSSL library supports the necessary protocols.

Note that you may have multiple versions of OpenSSL installed, so to be 100% sure check the version of OpenSSL that Xymon uses: "xymonnet --version" will tell you which OpenSSL version it was compiled with, and "ldd ~xymon/server/bin/xymonnet" will show you (on Linux, at least) what the actual library is that is used by xymonnet.


Regards,
Henrik

Den 07-06-2016 kl. 00:20 skrev Gore, David W (David):

    Mark Felder,

    Mentioned last year around April 17^th , 2015 where Xymon support
    for TLS v1.1 and v1.2 may be lacking.  Perhaps the issue is more
    my naiveté but does anyone know how I can get the sslcert and http
    tests to work correctly with Apache and Xymon.

    red https://xymon1.domain.com/ - SSL error

    The sslcert test goes purple.

    Os: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.2 (Maipo)

    Openssl: OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013

    Xymon:  4.3.26

    David W Gore