How to confirm whether a service gateway in Tanzu GemFire for VMs is setup properly

Products

• VMware Tanzu Gemfire

Issue/Introduction

How can you confirm whether a service gateway in Tanzu GemFire for VMs is setup properly?

Environment

Product Version: 1.13

Resolution

After setting up the service gateway following all the steps described in Configuring a Service Gateway, you need to make sure that the following OpenSSL command works and shows the certificate successfully.

openssl s_client -connect {TCP_ROUTER_URL}:{TCP_ROUTER_PORT} -servername {GEMFIRE_LOCATOR_HOSTNAME}

If successful, your service gateway is setup properly.

Note: The information for the parameters for OpenSSL command can be found in the service key.