Is the data passed between Smarts SAM and Smarts IP applications encrypted

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:


Is the data transmitted between Smarts SAM and Smarts IP applications encrypted?

Environment

All supported release of Smarts

Resolution

• The information flow between Smarts IP and SAM applications is encrypted by default, including all Smarts server-to-server communications (apart from Perl). Encryption is configurable in the  runcmd_env.sh file using the SM_INCOMING_PROTOCOL and SM_OUTGOING_PROTOCOL parameters. The 1 and 0 flags for these parameters are used to turn encryption on (1) and off (0). The default encryption setting is "on" as in the following:

  SM_INCOMING_PROTOCOL=1,0
  SM_OUTGOING_PROTOCOL=1,0

• When these parameter flags are set this way, Smarts IP tries to transmit encrypted (1) first and then non-encrypted (0) information. If the flags are set to 0 only, non-encrypted information is passed.