F5® Alert of the Week: SSL certificate is about to expire

This is a real life sample alert from indeni

Description:

Some SSL certificates are about to expire or have expired.

Certificates expired or about to expire:

www.mysite.com expires on November 30, 2014

Manual Remediation Steps:

Replace the SSL certificates with new ones.

For more information on how to manage certificates, refer to Managing SSL Certificates for Local Traffic in the F5 user guide.

How does this alert work?

indeni retrieves the SSL certificates configured on an F5 BIG-IP device and analyzes them: checking their expiration date, their validity (are they self-signed or signed by an internal CA?), etc.