My new year middleware blog post is out! It took three days to prepare it. Hope you’ll enjoy it!
*** Monitoring Certificate Expiry Dates of a JAVA Keystore (.JKS) File in a WebLogic Domain (Shell Script, Scheduling, Alerting) ***
One of my client asked me how to monitor expiry dates of JKS certificate entries in a WebLogic domain. If an imported certificate entry expires in a JKS (Java Keystore File) then the HTTPS transactions is going to fail because of SSL handshake exception/failure.
So, a proactive administrator should monitor these certificates and should warn the 3rd party end point URL’s administrator or update/import the certificate with the new one before the failure. Especially, if you are working with OSB (Oracle Service Bus) and SOA Suite 11g/12c WebLogic domains it is very crucial to monitor imported JKS certificate entries.
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