PROBLEM:
You wish to have advance warning when your SSL certificates are about to expire.
SOLUTION:
On the BVE server:
- Unzip the attached file to <traverse_Home> /plugin/monitors
- Once unzipped the below files should be located at:
- /plugin/monitors/ssl_cert_check.xml
- /plugin/monitors/ssl_cert_check/ssl_cert_check.pl
- cd <traverse_home>plugin/monitors/ssl_cert_check
- chmod 755 ssl_cert_check.pl (only for GNU/Linux environment)
- To test it, you can run
- <traverse_home>/plugin/monitors/ssl_cert_check/ssl_cert_check.pl --host www.google.com --port 443
- From 'Superuser -> Health', select the icon in the Action column for the BVE and the appropriate DGE, then 'Reload Config Files' from the menu

- Provision a new test (Create New Standard Tests) on a web server device using the monitor type 'ssl_cert_check'

- The test will return the number of days to expiration of the SSL certificate installed on the device.

Windows DGE/x
if you are running Windows, you will required and extra step for this to run: