Bad Security Handshake Errors

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal
• CA Identity Suite

Issue/Introduction

Both smps.log and smtracedefault.log show repeated messages similar to these:

1. Bad security handshake attempt. Handshake error: 3159
2. Handshake error: Failed to receive client hello. Client disconnected
3. Failed handshake with ##.###.###.##:54492
4. Handshake error with trusted host  with IP ##.###.###.## on Port No 54492

What is the cause of these messages

Environment

Release : 14.3

Component : CA IDENTITY SUITE (VIRTUAL APPLIANCE)

Cause

This is due to integrating products might doing the health check or LB might contain the session timeout setting that was closed the connection.  LB can also be a factor as it is doing health check in general. 

Resolution

If this SSO is working as expected. This message can to ignored.