{"id":1632,"date":"2023-07-30T17:50:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T16:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2024-10-18T09:54:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T08:54:35","slug":"checking-ssl-tls-certificates-using-aria-operations-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/?p=1632","title":{"rendered":"Checking SSL\/TLS Certificates using Aria Operations &#8211; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/?p=538\">Checking SSL\/TLS Certificate Validity Period using vRealize Operations Application Monitoring Agents<\/a>&#8221; published in 2020, I have described how to check the remaining validity of SSL\/TLS certificates using <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Aria Operations<\/mark><\/strong>, or to be more specific, using vRealize Operations 8.1 and 8.2 back in the days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did not expect this post to be utilized by some many customers to check their SSL\/TLS certificates used to secure specifically non-VMware endpoints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As things might have changed in latest versions of Aria Operations including the <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">VMware Aria Operations SaaS<\/mark> offering, In this blog post I will describe how to check and adjust the configuration if required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Application Monitoring  &#8211; Agent Configuration<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The first change is, that there is no <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Application Remote Collector<\/mark> (ARC) Aria Operations. Its functionality is now included in the <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Aria Operations Cloud Proxy<\/mark>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Cloud Proxy instance has to be deployed to the Aria Operations instance regardless the option being used, on-premises or SaaS. The following picture shows the Cloud Proxy in an on-premises Aria Operations instance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cloud-proxy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cloud-proxy-1024x551.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cloud-proxy-1024x551.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cloud-proxy-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cloud-proxy-768x413.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cloud-proxy-1536x826.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cloud-proxy-2048x1101.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 1: Aria Operations Cloud Proxy.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To deploy and configure the Cloud Proxy please follow the official VMware documentation: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Aria-Operations\/8.12\/Getting-Started-Operations\/GUID-7C52B725-4675-4A58-A0AF-6246AEFA45CD.html\">https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Aria-Operations\/8.12\/Getting-Started-Operations\/GUID-7C52B725-4675-4A58-A0AF-6246AEFA45CD.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The installation and configuration of the Aria Operations managed telegraf agent did not change significantly, the screenshots from my old post still apply. VMware documentation describes the installation, configuration and uninstallation process: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Aria-Operations\/8.12\/Configuring-Operations\/GUID-0C121456-370C-467E-874B-38ACC93E3776.html\">https:\/\/docs.vmware.com\/en\/VMware-Aria-Operations\/8.12\/Configuring-Operations\/GUID-0C121456-370C-467E-874B-38ACC93E3776.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/install-agent-01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2106\" height=\"806\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/install-agent-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/install-agent-01.png 2106w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/install-agent-01-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/install-agent-01-1024x392.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/install-agent-01-768x294.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/install-agent-01-1536x588.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/install-agent-01-2048x784.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2106px) 100vw, 2106px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 2: Installing Application Monitoring agent.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the agent has been installed and is running, the actual configuration of the agent becomes available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agent basically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>discovers supported <strong><span style=\"color:#0f6d96\" class=\"has-inline-color\">applications<\/span><\/strong> and can be configured to monitor those applications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>provide the ability to run <span style=\"color:#0f6d96\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>remote check<\/strong>,<\/span> like ICMP or TCP tests<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>provide the ability to <strong><span style=\"color:#0f6d96\" class=\"has-inline-color\">run custom scripts<\/span><\/strong> locally<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The ability to run scripts and report the integer output as metric back to Aria Operations is exactly what we need to run certificate checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The actual script is fairly easy and available, together with the Aria Operations dashboard, via my GitHub repo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/code.vmware.com\/samples?id=7464\">https:\/\/github.com\/tkopton\/aria-operations-content\/tree\/main\/SSLCheckFiles<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To let the agent run the script and provide a metric, we configure the agent with few options, the process has changed slightly in newer versions and you will find it under the Applications section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-1024x620.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-1024x620.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-768x465.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-1536x930.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-2048x1240.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 3: Configure Custom Script<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The script itself expects two parameters, the endpoint to check and the port number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-2-1024x455.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-2-1024x455.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-2-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-2-768x342.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-2-1536x683.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/telegraf-config-2-2048x911.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 5: Custom Script options<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One agent, like for example a designated Linux Virtual Machine, can run multiple instances of the same script with different options or completely different scripts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All scripts need to be placed in <code>\/opt\/vmware<\/code> and the <code>arcuser<\/code> (as per default configuration) needs the execute permissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dashboard<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The running custom scripts provide a metric per script. The values can be used to populate dashboards or views or serve as metrics for symptoms and alert definitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/script-metrics.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/script-metrics-1024x435.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/script-metrics-1024x435.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/script-metrics-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/script-metrics-768x326.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/script-metrics-1536x653.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/script-metrics-2048x870.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 5: Custom Scripts as metrics.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After downloading and importing the Dashboard into Aria Operations, please do not forget to reconfigure the Scoreboard widget. You will need to remove my custom script metrics and add yours, as shown here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-01-1024x677.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-01-1024x677.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-01-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-01-768x508.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-01-1536x1015.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-01.png 1770w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 6: Scoreboard widget configuration.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A nice option is, to retain one of the examples as with one click apply the custom settings to all your custom script metrics as shown in the following picture, obviously you will need to change the Box Label. For some reason it does not copy the unit, it has to be specified on every new metric manually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-03.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-03-1024x618.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-03-1024x618.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-03-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-03-768x464.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-03-1536x927.png 1536w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/scoreboard-customscript-03.png 1736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 7: Scoreboard widget configuration &#8211; applying custom settings to all metrics.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The dashboard showing is very simple but with the color coding if the widget it is easy to spot endpoints with expiring SSL\/TLS certificates and take appropriate actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/dashboard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/dashboard-1024x448.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/dashboard-1024x448.png 1024w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/dashboard-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/dashboard-768x336.png 768w, https:\/\/thomas-kopton.de\/vblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/dashboard.png 1504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 8: SSL\/TLS Certificate Validity dashboard<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course you can adjust the widget settings to reflect your color coding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Stay<\/mark><\/strong> <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);color:#f5d800\" class=\"has-inline-color\">safe<\/mark><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThomasKopton\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThomasKopt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my article &#8220;Checking SSL\/TLS Certificate Validity Period using vRealize Operations Application Monitoring Agents&#8221; published in 2020, I have described how to check the remaining validity of SSL\/TLS certificates using Aria Operations, or to be more specific, using vRealize Operations 8.1 and 8.2 back in the days. 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