Blue Medora is an IBM PartnerWorld Partner with a wide range of solutions that are Powered by IBM Tivoli and have been validated by IBM as Ready for IBM Tivoli.
Blue Medora's solutions have been validated by IBM to work on IBM Linux on Power and Linux on IBM zSeries hardware
Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates allows customers to optimize their existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) infrastructure to provide the ability to remotely interrogate X.509 digital certificates throughout their enterprise and determine whether the certificates are in danger of expiring. This results in less complexity, increased security, more uniform operations management, and a significant reduction in costs due to the elimination of redundant infrastructure and multiple platform-specific tools.
The Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates monitors the life cycle of remote X.509 based digital certificates. It connects to a SSL enabled TCP listener or a SMTP connection running over TLS and interrogates the certificate for information related to certificate validity based on the current date, the certificate's valid lifetime, subject, and other key data elements.
IT administrator can quickly and easily set up complex monitoring scenarios that, when combined with ITM-based Situations, Take-Actions, and Policies, can be used to implement automated workflows that provide alerts for scenarios such as when hosts are unreachable or when hosts are responding slowly.
With Blue Medora ITM Agent for Remote SSL Certificates, you gain the ability to remote evaluate the following attributes about an SSL or TLS/SMTP accessible X.509 digital certificate:
- Issuer of the certificate
- Expiration Date of certificate
- Number of Days until certificate expiration
- Whether the certificate has expired or not
Screenshot: Remote SSL Certificates Agent as viewed in the ITM Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP)
Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates has been designed from the ground up to look, feel, and operate like existing IBM-developed ITM agents in terms of ITM remote deployment, manageability via ITM command-line utilities, and installation and configuration.
When combined with the TCR Report Package for the Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates administrators are able to quickly and easily generate high level reports detailing the overall status of their remotely deployed X.509 certificates -- providing a pro-active understanding of when certificates will be expiring in the organization and causing outages.
Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates:
- Takes advantage of ITM's Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) visualization capabilities to include best practices, expert advice, customized workspaces, and historical data gathering.
- Integrates with Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW) to provide ITDS-focused historical data collection and analysis.
- Provides the ability to send application-specific events to Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) and Netcool OMNIbus for advanced correlation and automation.
- Is validated by IBM as Ready for IBM Tivoli.
Versions of IBM Tivoli Monitoring Supported
IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2
IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.1
IBM Tivoli Monitoring V.6.2.2
Operating System Support
AIX 5.3 (64 bit)
AIX 6.1 (64 bit)
Solaris V9 (SPARC) (32/64 bit)
Solaris V10 (SPARC) (64 bit)
Solaris V10 (x86-64) on AMD Opteron
HP-UX 11.23 and 11.31 on Itanium2
Windows 2003 Server SE (32 bit) with Service Pack1 or higher
Windows 2003 Server EE (32 bit) with Service Pack 1 or higher
Windows 2003 Server (64 bit) with Service Pack 1 or higher
Windows 2003 Server EE (64 bit)
Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
Windows Server 2008 SE (32 bit)
Windows Server 2008 EE (32 bit)
Windows Server 2008 SE (64 bit)
Windows Server 2008 EE (64 bit)
Windows Server 2008 Data Center
Windows Server 2008 Data Center (64 bit)
Red Hat Enterprise and Desktop Linux 4 for Intel
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for AMD64/EM64T
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for pSeries
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 for z/Series 31-bit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 for z/Series 64-bit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for AMD64/EM64T
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for pSeries
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 for z/Series 31-bit
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 for z/Series 64-bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for Intel
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for zSeries 31-bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for zSeries 64-bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for pSeries
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for Intel
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for zSeries 31-bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for zSeries 64-bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for pSeries
Requirement for pre-existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent
Blue Medora ITM Agents require a pre-existing IBM published agent be installed prior to Blue Medora ITM Agent installation. The Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates does not ship IBM specific Java™, IBM GSkit, or the IBM Tivoli Monitoring runtime libraries. Installing an IBM-provided agent (normally an OS agent) installs these elements.
The Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates is a Blue Medora Category B Remote Utility Agent. Please refer to the How to Buy page for pricing details of Blue Medora Category B Remote Utility Agents.
Is the product Ready for Tivoli validated? Yes 
Tivoli Common Reporting report package available? Yes
Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates TCR Report Package includes a set of historical reports, reporting against summarized data collected in the Tivoli Data Warehouse of IBM Tivoli Monitoring. The reports are designed to run against the Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates v6.2.0.
Example Remote SSL Certificate TCR reports can be viewed here:
Remote SSL Certificates - Certificate Expiration - All Certificates
Remote SSL Certificates - Certificate Expiration - Problematic Certificates Only
Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certiicates TCR report package is available free of charge to any customer who has licensed the Blue Medora Agent for Remote SSL Certificates.