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Configure SSL Connections to Ops Manager¶
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Overview¶
You can encrypt connections from the Monitoring and Backup Agents to Ops Manager and from website clients to the Ops Manager web interface. You can encrypt connections in either of two ways:
- Set up an HTTPS proxy in front of Ops Manager.
- Run the Ops Manager Application over HTTPS, as described here.
By default, Ops Manager uses port 8443
for HTTPS access.
Run the Ops Manager Application Over HTTPS¶
To run the Ops Manager Application over HTTPS, you can configure Ops Manager with the server’s certificate and private key.
1
Open the conf-mms.properties
file with root privileges.¶
For the file location, see Ops Manager Configuration Files.
2
Configure the mms.https.PEMKeyFile
and mms.https.PEMKeyFilePassword
settings.¶
Set mms.https.PEMKeyFile
to a PEM file containing an X509
certificate and private key, and set
mms.https.PEMKeyFilePassword
to the password for the
certificate. For example:
Set mms.centralUrl
to the new HTTPS information. For
example:
8443
is the default port used by Ops Manager.