TLS Communication Issue in Dell Data Protection Virtual Edition

Affected Products:

• Dell Data Protection | Virtual Edition

Affected Versions:

• v9.2 and Earlier

Client Security Framework (agent) policies do not pull properly. This is due to TLS communication to the backend server.

This error is typically linked to Dell Data Protection | Virtual Edition v9.2 and earlier, where the core server could only talk on TLS 1.0. Newer versions (9.3 and later) have a new service that is named Core HA Proxy and it can communicate up to TLS 1.2.

When the below errors are seen, an upgrade is necessary to resolve the issue:

2016.04.05 16:09:09 I Comm : opening connection to "https://<server.domain.com>:8888/agent"
2016.04.05 16:09:11 E Comm : communication exception - An error occurred while making the HTTP request to https://<server.domain>.com:8888/agent. This could be due to the fact that the server certificate is not configured properly with HTTP.SYS in the HTTPS case. This could also be caused by a mismatch of the security binding between the client and the server.: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.
2016.04.05 16:09:11 I Comm : next contact with server scheduled for 4/5/2016 4:10:11 PM
2016.04.05 16:10:11 I Comm : opening connection to "https://<server.domain.com>:8888/agentv2"
2016.04.05 16:10:12 E Comm : communication exception - An error occurred while making the HTTP request to https://<server.domain.com>:8888/agentv2. This could be due to the fact that the server certificate is not configured properly with HTTP.SYS in the HTTPS case. This could also be caused by a mismatch of the security binding between the client and the server.: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.

Issue was resolved in v9.3 and later.

To resolve issue, upgrade server to current version.

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