Connectrix: B-Series: Expired HTTPS Certificates Causing Switch Status Marginal

Summary: Expired HTTPS certificates trigger MAPS alerts for switch status and sets status to Marginal.

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Symptoms

From MAPS outputs: 
mapsdb --show
2 Switch Health Report:
=======================
Current Switch Policy Status: MARGINAL
Contributing Factors:
---------------------
*EXPIRED_CERTS (MARGINAL).

SwitchA:admin> seccertmgmt show -all  
ssh private key: 
   Does not Exist   
ssh public keys available for users: 
   None  
Certificate Files:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Protocol   Client CA                 Server CA                 SW                        CSR     PVT Key Passphrase
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FCAP       Empty                     NA                        Empty                     Empty   Empty   Empty  
RADIUS     Empty                     Empty                     Empty                     Empty   Empty   NA     
LDAP       Empty                     Empty                     Empty                     Empty   Empty   NA     
SYSLOG     Empty                     Empty                     Empty                     Empty   Empty   NA     
HTTPS      NA                        Empty                     Exist                     Empty   Exist   NA     
KAFKA      NA                        Empty                     NA                        NA      NA      NA     
ASC        NA                        Empty                     NA                        NA      NA      NA

Cause

This issue caused due to the HTTPS certificate expiring and must be renewed. 
SwitchA:FID128:admin> seccertmgmt show -cert https
Issued To 
    countryName               = US
    stateOrProvinceName       = California
    localityName              = San Jose
    organizationName          = Brocade
    organizationalUnitName    = Eng
    commonName                = xx.xx.xx.xx
Issued By 
    countryName               = US
    stateOrProvinceName       = California
    localityName              = San Jose
    organizationName          = Brocade
    organizationalUnitName    = Eng
    commonName                = xx.xx.xx.xx

Period Of Validity 
    Begins On  Mar 23 12:05:31 2021 GMT
    Expires On  Mar 23 12:05:31 2023 GMT 
Certificate expiry date is Mar 23 12:05:31 2023 GMT
From Err dump: 
2023/03/22-23:59:35, [MAPS-1020], 549, FID 128, WARNING, SwitchA, Switch wide status has changed from HEALTHY to MARGINAL.

Resolution

Generate a self-signed HTTPS certificate.
  1. Verify if the certificate is updated using the following command.
seccertmgmt show -cert https
  1. Once the certificate is updated, It may take up to 24 hours for the switch status to change back to Healthy. 
  2. Consider performing "hafailover" or "hareboot" if the Switch status is not changed to healthy.
Example for resolving self-signed HTTPS certificate expiry: 
SwitchA:admin> seccertmgmt generate -cert https -type rsa -keysize 2048 -hash sha256 -years 2
Generating a new certificate will do the following
1. Delete existing switch certificate(s).
2. Disable secure protocol HTTPS
Warning: Certificate generation is CPU intensive and can cause high CPU usage
Continue (yes, y, no, n): [no] y
Generating ... ...Generated self-signed https certificate successfully.

switchA:admin> seccertmgmt show -cert https
Issued To
    countryName               = US
    stateOrProvinceName       = California
    localityName              = San Jose
    organizationName          = org
    organizationalUnitName    = unit
    commonName                = xx.xx.xx.xx
Issued By
    countryName               = US
    stateOrProvinceName       = California
    localityName              = San Jose
    organizationName          = org
    organizationalUnitName    = unit
    commonName                = xx.xx.xx.xx

Period Of Validity
    Begins On                Nov  9 10:02:22 2023 GMT
    Expires On               Nov  8 10:02:22 2025 GMT >> Certificate Updated

Affected Products

Connectrix B-Series
Article Properties
Article Number: 000220191
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 10 ربيع الأول 1447
Version:  2
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