We just had an issue with an expired SSL certificate. Although the customer had a monitoring system in place, this system failed to inform the administrators of the upcoming certificate expiration which the leads to a system downtime this morning.
Wildcard Certificates with Let’s Encrypt
Let’s Encrypt now has the possibility to create wildcard certificates which makes things much easier if you are hosting many different sites or servers with the same domain which all need SSL certificates. Here I will describe how to implement
Technical Changes Behind the Scene …
Long time ago since I posted something here. The reason for that is, that I did some massive technical changes in the background. First, all my stuff is now running on a plain Linux virtual server (based on Debian Jessie)
Update iKeyman to support CMS
During an installation of IBM Tivoli Directory Server (TDS) I needed to use the iKeyman tool which was delivered with TDS. Unfortunately this version of the tool does not include the capability to support CMS keystores. In order to correct
IBM Connections 4: SSL Termination on Load Balancer
If you configure IBM Connections 4 behind a load balancer which does SSL termination you are unable to login. This is because Connections does force SSL for the login page. So even if you access Connections via HTTP during login,
Websphere: Replacing the default IBM self-signed certificate with another certificate
Just in case I will need it the next time … This article is a good description how to Adding trusted root and intermediary certificates to the Cell default trust store Generating a certificate signer request Installing a signed certificate
Using Sametime Web API features with SSL
If you want to use the Sametime Web API features of the Sametime Standalone or Sametime Embedded Client in Notes if you have enabled SSL for awareness / presence information you need first to do some steps on the client