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Secure Performance Monitoring Toolset with HTTPS/SSL

  1. ColdFusion Tools User Guide
  2. Performance Monitoring Toolset
    1. Overview of ColdFusion Performance Monitoring Toolset
    2. Auto-discovery of ColdFusion nodes and clusters
    3. Code profiler in ColdFusion Performance Monitoring Toolset
    4. Configure ColdFusion Performance Monitoring Toolset settings
    5. Install ColdFusion Performance Monitoring Toolset
    6. View cloud metrics
    7. Monitor GraphQL in Performance Monitoring Toolset
    8. Configure TLS/SSL and Authentication for Elasticsearch 8.x  in Performance Monitoring Toolset
    9. View cluster and node metrics
    10. View data source metrics
    11. View external services
    12. View incoming services
    13. View list of sites and busy connections
    14. View topology of sites
    15. Datastore Health Monitoring
    16. Performance Monitoring Toolset Update 1
    17. Secure Performance Monitoring Toolset with HTTPS/SSL
    18. Performance Monitoring Toolset deployment guide
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    7. What's new in Adobe ColdFusion Builder (2018 release)
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    12. Set up cluster support
    13. Integrate ColdFusion and API Manager
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    15. Generate Swagger documents
    16. Configure SSL
    17. Known issues in this release
    18. Policies in ColdFusion API Manager
    19. Create a Redis cluster
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    21. Docker images for ColdFusion API Manager

Overview

Secure Socket Layer (SSL) is a protocol that provides communications security between a client and a server by implementing encrypted data and certificate-based authentication.

SSL is a mature protocol and is supported by most browsers.

SSL uses encryption while transmitting data between two or more parties where the sender encrypts the data and the receiver decrypts the data. This method is known as public key encryption. For the public key encryption to take place, the parties in the loop must present a certificate before transmitting any encrypted data.

To ensure that the certificate used is valid, the SSL usually contacts a trusted third-party server called a Certificate Authority (CA).

HTTP vs HTTPS

HTTPS uses SSL protocols to transmit data. When a message is sent using HTTPS, the message is first encrypted with SSL, sent and received using HTTP, and finally decrypted using SSL.

In comparison to HTTP, HTTPS provides better security through encryption and uses digital certificates.

Generate key pairs and certificates

Performance Monitoring Toolset supports the following keystore types:

  • JKS
  • PKCS12

To generate the keys and certificate, you can use the keytool utility that is bundled with JDK. You can also use third-party certificates or use OpenSSL to create keys and certificates.

Using keytool, enter either in the command prompt:

JKS:

keytool -genkey -keyalg RSA -alias selfsigned -keystore <keystore.jks> -storepass <password> -validity 360 -keysize 2048

PKCS 12:

keytool -genkey -alias pmtpkcs12 -keystore </path/to/keystore.pfx> -storetype PKCS12 -keyalg RSA -storepass <password> -validity 730 -keysize 2048

After you enter the command, the keytool will ask you to enter the values for Common Name (CN), Organizational Unit (OU), Organization(O), Locality (L), State (ST) and Country (C).

You can also set the passwords for the keystore and the keystore alias.

The CN must match the domain name of Performance Monitoring Toolset.

Configure HTTPS in Performance Monitoring Toolset

To serve Performance Monitoring Toolset dashboard over HTTPS/SSL, perform the following steps:

On the home page of Performance Monitoring Toolset, click Settings.

In the General tab, choose the option HTTPS.

HTTPS Option
HTTPS Option

After you choose HTTPS, you must enter the path to the keystore and the password of the keystore in the section SSL.

Keystore path and password
Keystore path and password

To save your changes, click Submit. Restart Performance Monitoring Toolset for the changes to take effect.

After the restart, to launch Performance Monitoring Toolset using HTTPS, enter the URL of Performance Monitoring Toolset after entering HTTPS, as shown below:

https://<domain of Performance Monitoring Toolset >:<port>/dashboard

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