Configuration of SMTP on Aria operation for logs based on Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) from AWS fails

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Connection test between Aria logs and Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES)/AWS fails

• Error:  send test  email  get an error "unable to fetch certificate and validate".
• openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect SMTP-FDQN/IP:<Port> -servername SMTP-FDQN/IP -showcerts fails

Environment

Aria  Operation for logs 8.18.x

Cause

Port 587 was block on Firewall

Resolution

1. Open port 587 on firewall
2. Create firewall exception for port 587