ACE Probes for authentication to imaps, smpts or pop3s servers

[Fresenius-Netcare]

Dear all,

we have the demand to do health checks using authentication for servers running SSL-encrypted services like imaps, smpts or pop3s. Has someone implemented tcl scripts for that ? Unfortunately the "SSL_PROBE_SCRIPT" provided by Cisco does only do a "Client Hello". Maybe it is possible to enhance that script in order to test authentication ?

Thank you very much in advance.

Bernd

[Gilles Dufour · Accepted solution]

The TCL script does not have SSL functionalities.

The script stops after the client/server hello because it can't do encryption/decryption.

So, there is no way to achieve what you need.

Gilles.

[Fresenius-Netcare]

Dear Gilles,

thank you very much for your reply. This answers my question.

But ... I would like to turn this into a feature request, because I believe this demand is not that much out of common. There already is a https probe which works in a similar way, so it should be easy for Cisco to add probes for common ssl-encrypting protocols or - even better - add a generic ssl probe.

Best regards,

Bernd

[aadcasutt]

Hello

I'm looking for exactly the same for https post xml. With every F5 box this could easily be implemented.

Would be great to get that functionality.

Adrian