topic RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS in ExtremeCloud IQ- Site Engine Management Center

Force NetSight to use HTTPS

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:38:00 GMT

Hopefully this is an easy one.....

Is there anyway to force the use of HTTPS directly via the NetSight application. As an example when I delete port 8080 from the 'Web Server' options it forces me to put a port number in, or a simple radio button somewhere that disables it?

Many thanks in advance.

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

Mike_Thomas — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:25:00 GMT

You can change the ports using Tools->Options->Web Server

For certain you want to do this only on Netsight Server appliances only, that don't use other ports for the proposed ones.

So this means not using in with Netsight Server than runs on the Windows Server Platform, where we have seen interference issues.

Be sure to test it, before assuming it will work in full deployment for your sight.

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:38:00 GMT

Thanks for posting back.

Apologise if my description my not have been clear.

Just trying to understand your solution, which sounds like to just change the port number for http. This I don't understand, as for example if I changed it to 9090 you would still be able to http in port 9090 instead of 8080, thereby still making it vulnerable.

I was wondering if there is a why in NetSight to disable http (via any port) or redirect all http traffic to https.

Many thanks.

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

Mike_Thomas — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 21:22:00 GMT

No, there is no way to restrict this via Netsight itself.
If you open a case requesting that as a feature request, we can have it surveyed as a potential feature.

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 03:45:00 GMT

Managed to workout an option for this.

If you go to your ../NetSight/appdata/ folder and edit the file NSJBoss.properties you can comment out the following line by putting a # in front of it:

enterasys.tomcat.http.port=8080Then the browser is no longer be able to reach NetSight on that port number, thereby forcing the user to use HTTPS.

There might be a way in the same file to redirect anyone trying port 8080 to go to https:8443 instead?

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

davidj_cogliane — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 22:53:00 GMT

Has any progress been made on this issue. I have a customer asking to disable http and would like to be able to give them a timeline if this will be available soon.

Thanks,

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:13:00 GMT

Hi David, the answer is above in editing the NSJBoss file. If you comment out the line given you will no longer be able to connect to NetSight using http. Thanks

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

davidj_cogliane — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:39:00 GMT

Is that on your machine or on the server? I cannot find an appdata directory on the server and making the change on one machine does not seem to really solve the problem.

Thanks,

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

Frank_Thomas — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 23:59:00 GMT

It would be on the server. Is your server linux or windows?

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

davidj_cogliane — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 00:04:00 GMT

linux

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 00:07:00 GMT

Just thought I would post the path in either situation 🙂

Windows Server:

NetSight_Install_path (probably Program Files)\Extreme Networks\NetSight\appdata\

Linux Server:

/usr/local/Extreme_Networks/NetSight/appdata/

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

Frank_Thomas — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 00:13:00 GMT

Depending on the version/age of the server it might also possibly be in /usr/local/Enterasys_Networks/NetSight/appdata

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

davidj_cogliane — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 17:53:00 GMT

Frank, That is where my file was. Thanks for the assistance everyone.

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

davidj_cogliane — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:59:00 GMT

Ok,

So I found this commented it out and all was well. Then I upgraded to NetSight 7 and the legacy links default to http which fails.

Are there plans for a more official way to disable http?

RE: Force NetSight to use HTTPS

Jaroslav_Stefan — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 14:38:00 GMT

Hi, just follow up.

Purpose of this comment is to share a knowledge how to get more user friendly configuration of Extreme Management Center.

Start position:
- fresh install of ExtremeManagementControl (EMC) on RHEL (v7) or Centos server (v7)
- available on port https://example.com:8443 only.

Final position:
- availabe on example.com
- Apache witch rewrite rule
- JBoss and Tomacat works on encpryted line
- everything works like a charm
- Simple communication scheme:

---80|443--->[Apache]---8443--->[Tomcat/JBOSS]
[pc]------------------------------------------------------------------
---8443<---[Apache]<---8443---[Tomcat/JBOSS]

Steps:
1) After a fresh install EMC is available on: https://example.com:8443
2) Install httpd
put to this to file: /ect/httpd/conf.d/emc.conf:

ServerName emc.example.com:80
ErrorLog "logs/error-ssl.log"
CustomLog "logs/access-ssl.log" common

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%25%7Bhttp_host%7D%25%7Brequest_uri%7D/ [R,L]

Require all granted

3) Edit file /usr/local/Extreme_Networks/NetSight/appdata/NSJBoss.properties like this:
-------------------------------------------------
log4j.configuration=file\:./log4j.properties
enterasys.mysqlrealm.rpt.password=enterasys
java.security.manager=
enterasys.embeddednac.enable=false
jboss.bind.address.management=127.0.0.1
oneView.flexreport.capacityplanning.limit=2000
enterasys.datasource.connectionurl=jdbc\:mysql\://127.0.0.1\:4589/netsight?jdbcCompliantTruncation\=false&useUnicode\=true&characterEncoding\=UTF-8&useSSL\=false
jboss.http.port=8080
enterasys.mysqlrealm.rpt.username=netsight
username=root
USE_IPV6=true
oneView.responsetime.app.redline=1000
jboss.https.port=443
java.security.policy=../server/default/conf/server.policy
dashboard.cache.time=2
enterasys.tomcat.ciphers=TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256,ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384,ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384,ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256,ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256
enterasys.webservices.queryendsystems=true
ANTLR_USE_DIRECT_CLASS_LOADING=true
oneView.responsetime.tcp.redline=1000
enterasys.mysqlrealm.password=enterasys
nmsMobile.demoMode=false
enterasys.mysqlrealm.username=netsight
OneView.DisplayNacConfigurationTab=true
enterasys.tomcat.https.port=8443
oneView.maxImageSize=3000x2000
enterasys.jboss.log4j.logfile=../../appdata/logs/server.log
jboss.bind.address=YOUR_IP_ADDRESS
domain=example.com
jboss.server.log.dir=../../appdata/logs
enterasys.datasource.rpt.connectionurl=jdbc\:mysql\://127.0.0.1\:4589/netsightrpt?jdbcCompliantTruncation\=false&useUnicode\=true&characterEncoding\=UTF-8&useSSL\=false
-------------------------------------------------

Most important lines:
jboss.http.port=8080
jboss.https.port=443
enterasys.tomcat.https.port=8443
jboss.bind.address=YOUR_IP_ADDRESS
domain=example.com
-------------------------------------------------

File /var/Extreme_Networks/.netsight you can left as it is.

4) Now issue this commands:

systemctl restart httpd to restart httpd service
./usr/local/Extreme_Networks/NetSight/scripts/stopserver.sh && /usr/local/Extreme_Networks/NetSight/scripts/startserver.sh to restart JBOSS service.

5) Now you can access with your http browser your own instanace easily with emc.example.com and will be forwarded to https://emc.example.com:8443. Since this time any communication will be encrypted by default.

Best regards.