XCO Certificates

Multiple certificates are generated and used across the components in XCO.

  1. App Server Certificate: The certificate of XCO server for secure communication with the clients. This certificate is used on port 443 (default XCO), 8078 (monitor service of XCO), and 6514 (syslog listener on XCO).
  2. Intermediate CA Certificate: Certificate Authority, which is the issuer of client and server certificates of XCO and HTTPS certificate of SLX.
  3. Root CA Certificate: Certificate Authority, which is the issuer of Intermediate CA certificate.
  4. JWT Certificate: The RSA public key for JWT verification. This is also used to send user context from XCO to SLX.
  5. K3s Server Certificate (Internal): XCO uses K3s for management of services. This certificate is for secure communication of k3s with clients
  6. K3s CA Certificate (Internal): XCO uses K3s for management of services. These certificates are used for generating all the certificates of K3s.
  7. Host Authentication Service Certificate (Internal): The server certificate of host authentication service on XCO

The following tables provide information about XCO certificates.

For Alerts related to Alarm/Notifications, refer to the alerts described in Fault Management - Alerts.

Certificate Location in TPVM deployment Location in server deployment Description Default Validity Period Impact on the system Renewal Procedure Alarm/Notification
SSL/TLS Certificate of XCO /apps/efadata/certs/own/tls.crt /opt/efadata/certs/own/tls.crt The certificate of XCO server for secure communication with the clients. The same certificate is used on port 443 (default XCO), 8078 (monitor service of XCO), 6514 (syslog listener on XCO), 8079 (host authentication service of XCO)

Expires in 3 years from installation. Reset after every subinterface creation/upgrade

 If the certificate expires, then the server communication with SSL verification enabled will fail. Disables syslog messages from the devices Use the efa certificate server renew command as described in the XCO Server Certificate. Notification is sent to XCO subscribers from 30 days to expiry and warning message on every login from 7 days to expiry.
Notification is sent to XCO subscribers:
  1. After 30 days of expiry
  2. Expired certs
  3. Renewal certs
K3s CA Certificate /apps/rancher/k3s/server/tls/server-ca.crt /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/tls/server-ca.crt XCO uses K3s for management of services. These certificates are for secure communication of K3s with clients. Expires in 10 years from the date of installation. K3s CA.
Notification is sent to XCO subscribers:
  1. After 30 days of expiry
  2. Expired certs
  3. Renewal certs
Intermediate CA Certificate of XCO /apps/efadata/certs/ca/extreme-ca-cert.pem /opt/efadata/certs/ca/extreme-ca-cert.pem The certificate of Certificate Authority, which is the issuer of client and server certificates of XCO and HTTPS certificate of SLX. Same certificate is seen as SyslogCA on SLX Expires in 10 years from the date of installation XCO Intermediate CA Not available
Notification is sent to XCO subscribers:
  1. After 30 days of expiry
  2. Expired certs
  3. Renewal certs
Root CA Certificate of XCO /apps/efadata/certs/ca/extreme-ca-root.pem /opt/efadata/certs/ca/extreme-ca-root.pem The certificate of Certificate Authority, which is the issuer of Intermediate CA certificate Expires in 20 years from the date of installation XCO Root CA

XCO Certificate Expiry Notice

XCO Certificate Expired

XCO Certificate Upload or Renewal
HTTPS Certificate of SLX /apps/efadata/certs/slx-<IP>.extremenetworks.com-cert.pem /opt/efadata/certs/slx-<IP>.extremenetworks.com-cert.pem The certificate of SLX Web Server (Apache) for secure communication with the device from XCO Expires in 2 years from installation System will not use encryption for HTTPS requests HTTPS Certificates Notification is sent to XCO subscribers from 30 days of expiry.
K3s Certificate - XCO internal /apps/rancher/k3s/server/tls/ /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/tls/ XCO uses k3s for management of services. This certificate is for secure communication of k3s with clients Expires in 1 year from installation. Reset after every upgrade of XCO K3s Server Certificate XCO Certificate Expiry Notice
JWT Signing/Verification - XCO internal /apps/efadata/certs/cert.crt.pem /opt/efadata/certs/cert.crt.pem The RSA public key for JWT verification. This is also used to send user context from XCO to SLX. Same certificate is seen as Oauth certificate on SLX Expires in 10 years from the date of installation Disables login to XCO JWT Certificate XCO Certificate Expiry Notice

Managed Device Certificate Expiry Notice

Managed Device Certificate Expired

XCO Certificate Upload or Renewal

Managed Device Certificate Upload or Renewal
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