SSL Certificate Management and Expiration Monitoring Tool
Proactively monitor SSL certificate usage and expiration
Gain visibility with SSL certificate management tools
SSL management automates the task of certificate expiration monitoring to help maintain the reliability and accessibility of your websites. SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) includes an out-of-the-box SSL Certification Expiration monitor. This lets you test a web server's ability to accept incoming sessions over a secure channel and verify the security certificate's expiration date. Configure thresholds to receive useful alerts long before SSL certificates expire.
Identify web server performance issues with SSL monitoring
SAM includes monitoring templates for IIS, Apache, Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, and more.
SolarWinds SAM includes a built-in AppInsight™ template designed to provide deep monitoring of IIS, allowing you to easily isolate complex issues impacting website performance including:
- Web server response time and page requests
- Website connections and application cache
- CPU, memory usage, and average network traffic
- Processes and services running on IIS server
- Site bindings and SSL certificate expiry
Monitor and check the availability of web services
Support application performance by ensuring fast web services and API by using SAM to monitor response time, availability of web services, and immediately notify you of failures or malfunctions. SolarWinds SAM can also help you eliminate false positives with advanced alerting features designed to provide the exact cause of performance problems.
With SAM, you can gain insights about web service latency and validate content returned for web service queries. You can also easily identify successful and failed form login attempts on webpages served behind secure forms. SAM includes built-in monitors for HTTP, HTTPS, and SOAP (the HTTP and HTTPS monitors also support JSON code).
Monitor applications and servers from one interface
In addition to SSL monitoring, SAM supports monitoring multi-vendor servers and applications with 1200 monitoring applications templates available. Easily monitor key applications such as Active Directory, Exchange, Linux, Oracle, SQL Server, Java, and more.
SolarWinds SAM is designed to automatically scan, discover, and map your systems environment, supporting your ability to more easily track server hardware health, resource usage, and forecast performance capacity.
Get More on SSL Monitoring
Do you find yourself asking…
SSL (or Secure Sockets Layer) certificates are small data files that create secure links between websites and browsers. SSL certificates help ensure any data passing between the website and a visitor’s browser remains protected, preventing hackers from gaining access to private data.
While SSL certificates are important for data privacy, they’re also essential for e-commerce sites processing credit card transactions, as these interactions contain identifying information like names and addresses in addition to credit card numbers.
Once installed on web servers, these cryptographic keys create secure sessions by changing the application protocol from standard HTTP to HTTPS, which indicates a protected, secure connection.
SSL certificates can be purchased from Certification Authorities, which are dedicated third-party organizations that manage and issues certificates. SSL certificates have an expiration date and come in three types, each of which offers a different level of security:
- Domain validated (DV) certificates verify the owner of the site, but nothing more. Since they don’t require any additional information from the company, DV certificates are typically considered the least trustworthy type of SSL certificate.
- Organizationally validated (OV) certificates require a Certification Authority to validate the organization’s domain name and physical location. OV certificates indicate a moderate level of trust, making them a good fit for websites that don’t handle sensitive transactions.
- Extended validation (EV) certificates are considered vital for any site dealing with sensitive data. Organizations seeking the certificate must undergo an extensive review by the Certification Authority, which includes an examination of corporate documents to verify the applicant’s identity. Most web browsers will indicate secure EV certificate connections with a padlock icon or by listing the company name in green.
SSL (or Secure Sockets Layer) certificates are small data files that create secure links between websites and browsers. SSL certificates help ensure any data passing between the website and a visitor’s browser remains protected, preventing hackers from gaining access to private data.
While SSL certificates are important for data privacy, they’re also essential for e-commerce sites processing credit card transactions, as these interactions contain identifying information like names and addresses in addition to credit card numbers.
Once installed on web servers, these cryptographic keys create secure sessions by changing the application protocol from standard HTTP to HTTPS, which indicates a protected, secure connection.
SSL certificates can be purchased from Certification Authorities, which are dedicated third-party organizations that manage and issues certificates. SSL certificates have an expiration date and come in three types, each of which offers a different level of security:
- Domain validated (DV) certificates verify the owner of the site, but nothing more. Since they don’t require any additional information from the company, DV certificates are typically considered the least trustworthy type of SSL certificate.
- Organizationally validated (OV) certificates require a Certification Authority to validate the organization’s domain name and physical location. OV certificates indicate a moderate level of trust, making them a good fit for websites that don’t handle sensitive transactions.
- Extended validation (EV) certificates are considered vital for any site dealing with sensitive data. Organizations seeking the certificate must undergo an extensive review by the Certification Authority, which includes an examination of corporate documents to verify the applicant’s identity. Most web browsers will indicate secure EV certificate connections with a padlock icon or by listing the company name in green.
Use SSL monitoring to avoid certificate expiration
Server & Application Monitor
- Set proactive alerts based on specific thresholds by using SSL certificate monitoring tools.
- Quickly isolate the root cause of “website down” and “website slow” issues.
- Use an automated tool to take the guesswork out of managing and renewing SSL certificates.