How to get the default redirected printer - printing

I do remote connection in a terminal server. Include printer as my local resources. Then at Device Settings, I set the default as the redirected printer.
Dim pr As Printer
MsgBox Printer.DeviceName
'- return the default printer which I believe pulled from registry entry
' "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Device"
For Each pr In Printers
MsgBox pr.DeviceName
Next pr
'- return the list of all available printer including from other users ' session
What I am trying to achieve here is that to return the correct default printer which is the redirected one. Not this Printer.DeviceName
I believe from this registry HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Device\SessionDefaultDevices\{SessionID}
Is there an existing function to pull the data here?

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Is it possible to implente EAP-MSCHAPv2 without Active Directory?

I would like to test 802.1X function for an Ethernet Switch (NAS).
I have a Workstation (Windows 10) and an Ubuntu server : I want to test EAP-MSCHAPv2.
I see a tutorial to configure FreeRADIUS : https://wiki.freeradius.org/guide/FreeRADIUS-Active-Directory-Integration-HOWTO
Problem is I don't have a Windows server. Is it possible to test EAP-MSCHAPv2 without it ? How to configure FreeRADIUS ? ... I just want to test a static configuration with one login+password.
Currently my FreeRADIUS works with EAP-MD5 : I already created user profile and NAS config
You need to set the MS-CHAP-Use-NTLM-Auth attribute to No in the control list. The mschap module will then do the authentication internally, rather than trying to call out to AD.
This is documented more extensively in raddb/mods-available/mschap.
For example you could create a user bob with password test in the raddb/users file thus:
bob Cleartext-Password := "test", MS-CHAP-Use-NTLM-Auth := No
Note that this attribute must be in the control list, not in the reply list, so appears on the same line as the username.

Send data from ESP32 to a server via WiFi

I am not new here but this is my first question.
I have searched a lot and quite frankly can't understand how this is supposed to work.
I get data periodically (temperature) to my ESP32 and while having it set as a WiFi client, connect to my router and somehow store this data on my Laptop(or somewhere else, like a local/web site, don't know if that's possible/better).
How is the connection supposed to work? I have installed XAMPP and run the Apache and MySQL servers and I tried to connect to my Laptop with some sketches from Arduino using the ESP32 libraries
// Use WiFiClient class to create TCP connections
WiFiClient client;
const int httpPort = 80;
const char* host = "192.168.1.109"; //The local IP of my Laptop
if (!client.connect(host, httpPort)) {
Serial.println("connection failed");
return;
}
but it doesn't connect.
Can someone please explain to me how this connection is supposed to take form or is this question too vague? I really just wanna know the "how-things-should-work-together" in this situation.
Thank you in advance.
OK, so after a lot of research and trying, I managed to work it out. I can now send an HTTP request (like GET or POST) from my ESP32 to a local server that is running on my laptop using XAMP and get a response. I can also connect to my local IP from my mobile phone (which is also in the same WiFi network).
Just for anyone else who wants to connect to a location in a server hosted on a PC in a local network, the steps are:
Create a local server on your PC, laptop whatever using an application like XAMPP (I have Windows 10 so WAMP would also work), download, install, open and start Apache.
Make sure that the Firewall lets your requests pass through (for me it was open by default, but I had seen elsewhere Firewall being an issue)
Go to your network settings, select the network that your devices(ESP32, phone, etc.)are connected and change its profile to Private, meaning that you trust this network, making your PC discoverable and able to accept requests. (That is really simple but took me hours to find)
Now, in order to connect from your phone to your PC, open a browser and enter the local IP (that is the IP that is given to your PC from the router as a local network name) of your PC to a browser and that's it, you are connected.
If you installed and ran XAMP, when connecting to your local IP(from same PC or other local device), it will forward you to 192.168.x.x/dashboard. If you want to create new workspaces and files, browse the XAMP folder in the installed location and inside the '/htdocs' subfolder do your testing.
For the ESP32 communication in Arduino(basic steps, not full code):
#include <WiFi.h>
#include <HTTPClient.h>
String host = "http://192.168.x.x/testfolder/";
String file_to_access = "test_post.php";
String URL = host + file_to_access;
void setup(){
WiFi.begin(ssid, password); //Connect to WiFi
HTTPClient http;
bool http_begin = http.begin(URL);
String message_name = "message_sent";
String message_value = "This is the value of a message sent by the ESP32 to local server
via HTTP POST request";
String payload_request = message_name + "=" + message_value; //Combine the name and value
http.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
int httpResponseCode = http.sendRequest("POST", payload_request);
String payload_response = http.getString();
}
In the test_post.php (located in "C:\xampp\htdocs\testfolder\") file I used a simple script to echo a message received using a POST request, so it's only 'readable' from POST requests. Connecting to it from your browser will give you the "Sorry, accepting..." message.
<?php
$message_received = "";
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST"){
$message_received = $_POST["message_sent"];
echo "Welcome ESP32, the message you sent me is: " . $message_received;
}
else {
echo "Sorry, accepting only POST requests...";
}
?>
Finally, using Serial prints, the output is:
Response Code: 200
Payload: Welcome ESP32, the message you sent me is: This is the value of a message sent by the ESP32 to local server via HTTP POST request
There it is, hope that this helps someone.

MQSeries Docker image: queue manager without authentication

How can I make the queue manager (which exists by default in the docker image) accept any connection without authentication?
I went through all the options in the web console (:9443/ibmmq/console/) and tried anything that I thought might have the effect I wanted, but couldn't find it.
TIA & BR,
Christian
Edit: here's the code I'm using to connect
JmsFactoryFactory ff = JmsFactoryFactory.getInstance(WMQConstants.WMQ_PROVIDER);
JmsConnectionFactory cf = ff.createConnectionFactory();
// Set the properties
cf.setStringProperty(WMQConstants.WMQ_HOST_NAME, HOST);
cf.setIntProperty(WMQConstants.WMQ_PORT, PORT);
cf.setStringProperty(WMQConstants.WMQ_CHANNEL, CHANNEL);
cf.setIntProperty(WMQConstants.WMQ_CONNECTION_MODE, WMQConstants.WMQ_CM_CLIENT);
cf.setStringProperty(WMQConstants.WMQ_QUEUE_MANAGER, QMGR);
cf.setStringProperty(WMQConstants.WMQ_APPLICATIONNAME, "JmsPutGet (JMS)");
//cf.setBooleanProperty(WMQConstants.USER_AUTHENTICATION_MQCSP, true);
//cf.setStringProperty(WMQConstants.USERID, APP_USER);
//cf.setStringProperty(WMQConstants.PASSWORD, APP_PASSWORD);
// Create JMS objects
context = cf.createContext();
----------edit------------
Error log after
removing "connection authentication" for the QM
setting the channel auth. record (under extended) to "As Queue Manager"
AMQ9557E: Queue Manager User ID initialization failed for '[my OS user]'.
EXPLANATION:
The call to initialize the User ID '[my OS user]' failed with CompCode 2 and
Reason 2035. If an MQCSP block was used, the User ID in the MQCSP block was ''.
ACTION:
Correct the error and try again.
If you are trying to disable the MQ Connection Authentication feature so that userid & passwords are not authenticated then you can do this by executing the following MQSC commands in runmqsc against the Queue Manager.
ALTER QMGR CONNAUTH(' ')
REFRESH SECURITY(*) TYPE(CONAUTH)
Alternatively in the MQ web Console:
Select your queue manager in the Queue Manager widget
Click properties
Go to the Extended section and scroll down
Set the "Connection Authentication" attribute to a blank value
Click save adn then close
Select your queue manager in the Queue Manager widgit
Click the ... and select Refresh security from the drop down
"Select connection authentication"
Add widget: "Channel authentication records"
In this widget, select the entry for your channel, click properties under "Extended" set client connections to "As Queue Manager"
If required:
Select your QM in the "Queue Manager" widget, open properties (...), "refresh security...", "Connection authentication".
Make sure the default user name (in the standard docker installation, that's "app") is set in the channel properties under MCA (as sugg. by #JoshMc)
Run following mqsc commands to disable channel authentication in IBM MQ server:
ALTER QMGR CHLAUTH(DISABLED)
ALTER QMGR CONNAUTH(' ')
REFRESH SECURITY TYPE(CONNAUTH)

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We currently have a Slack channel with ~8K messages all comes from Jenkins integration. Is there any programmatic way to delete all messages from that channel? The web interface can only delete 100 messages at a time.
I quickly found out there's someone already made a helper: slack-cleaner for this.
And for me it's just:
slack-cleaner --token=<TOKEN> --message --channel jenkins --user "*" --perform
I wrote a simple node script for deleting messages from public/private channels and chats. You can modify and use it.
https://gist.github.com/firatkucuk/ee898bc919021da621689f5e47e7abac
First, modify your token in the scripts configuration section then run the script:
node ./delete-slack-messages CHANNEL_ID
Get an OAuth token:
Go to https://api.slack.com/apps
Click 'Create New App', and name your (temporary) app.
In the side nav, go to 'Oauth & Permissions'
On that page, find the 'Scopes' section. Click 'Add an OAuth Scope' and add 'channels:history' and 'chat:write'. (see scopes)
At the top of the page, Click 'Install App to Workspace'. Confirm, and on page reload, copy the OAuth Access Token.
Find the channel ID
Also, the channel ID can be seen in the browser URL when you open slack in the browser. e.g.
https://mycompany.slack.com/messages/MY_CHANNEL_ID/
or
https://app.slack.com/client/WORKSPACE_ID/MY_CHANNEL_ID
default clean command did not work for me giving following error:
$ slack-cleaner --token=<TOKEN> --message --channel <CHANNEL>
Running slack-cleaner v0.2.4
Channel, direct message or private group not found
but following worked without any issue to clean the bot messages
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --message --group <CHANNEL> --bot --perform --rate 1
or
slack-cleaner --token <TOKEN> --message --group <CHANNEL> --user "*" --perform --rate 1
to clean all the messages.
I use rate-limit of 1 second to avoid HTTP 429 Too Many Requests error because of slack api rate limit. In both cases, channel name was supplied without # sign
For anyone else who doesn't need to do it programmatic,
here's a quick way:
(probably for paid users only)
Open the channel in web or the desktop app, and click the cog (top right).
Choose "Additional options..." to bring up the archival menu. notes
Select "Set the channel message retention policy".
Set "Retain all messages for a specific number of days".
All messages older than this time are deleted permanently!
I usually set this option to "1 day" to leave the channel with some context, then I go back into the above settings, and set it's retention policy back to "default" to go continue storing them from now-on.
Notes:
Luke points out: If the option is hidden: you have to go to global workspace Admin settings, Message Retention & Deletion, and check "Let workspace members override these settings"
!!UPDATE!!
as #niels-van-reijmersdal metioned in comment.
This feature has been removed. See this thread for more info: twitter.com/slackhq/status/467182697979588608?lang=en
!!END UPDATE!!
Here is a nice answer from SlackHQ in twitter, and it works without any third party stuff.
https://twitter.com/slackhq/status/467182697979588608?lang=en
You can bulk delete via the archives (http://my.slack.com/archives )
page for a particular channel: look for "delete messages" in menu
Option 1 You can set a Slack channel to automatically delete messages after 1 day, but it's a little hidden. First, you have to go to your Slack Workspace Settings, Message Retention & Deletion, and check "Let workspace members override these settings". After that, in the Slack client you can open a channel, click the gear, and click "Edit message retention..."
Option 2 The slack-cleaner command line tool that others have mentioned.
Option 3 Below is a little Python script that I use to clear Private channels. Can be a good starting point if you want more programmatic control of deletion. Unfortunately Slack has no bulk-delete API, and they rate-limit the individual delete to 50 per minute, so it unavoidably takes a long time.
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Requirement: pip install slackclient
"""
import multiprocessing.dummy, ctypes, time, traceback, datetime
from slackclient import SlackClient
legacy_token = raw_input("Enter token of an admin user. Get it from https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens >> ")
slack_client = SlackClient(legacy_token)
name_to_id = dict()
res = slack_client.api_call(
"groups.list", # groups are private channels, conversations are public channels. Different API.
exclude_members=True,
)
print ("Private channels:")
for c in res['groups']:
print(c['name'])
name_to_id[c['name']] = c['id']
channel = raw_input("Enter channel name to clear >> ").strip("#")
channel_id = name_to_id[channel]
pool=multiprocessing.dummy.Pool(4) #slack rate-limits the API, so not much benefit to more threads.
count = multiprocessing.dummy.Value(ctypes.c_int,0)
def _delete_message(message):
try:
success = False
while not success:
res= slack_client.api_call(
"chat.delete",
channel=channel_id,
ts=message['ts']
)
success = res['ok']
if not success:
if res.get('error')=='ratelimited':
# print res
time.sleep(float(res['headers']['Retry-After']))
else:
raise Exception("got error: %s"%(str(res.get('error'))))
count.value += 1
if count.value % 50==0:
print(count.value)
except:
traceback.print_exc()
retries = 3
hours_in_past = int(raw_input("How many hours in the past should messages be kept? Enter 0 to delete them all. >> "))
latest_timestamp = ((datetime.datetime.utcnow()-datetime.timedelta(hours=hours_in_past)) - datetime.datetime(1970,1,1)).total_seconds()
print("deleting messages...")
while retries > 0:
#see https://api.slack.com/methods/conversations.history
res = slack_client.api_call(
"groups.history",
channel=channel_id,
count=1000,
latest=latest_timestamp,)#important to do paging. Otherwise Slack returns a lot of already-deleted messages.
if res['messages']:
latest_timestamp = min(float(m['ts']) for m in res['messages'])
print datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(float(latest_timestamp)).strftime("%r %d-%b-%Y")
pool.map(_delete_message, res['messages'])
if not res["has_more"]: #Slack API seems to lie about this sometimes
print ("No data. Sleeping...")
time.sleep(1.0)
retries -= 1
else:
retries=10
print("Done.")
Note, that script will need modification to list & clear public channels. The API methods for those are channels.* instead of groups.*
As other answers allude, Slack's rate limits make this tricky - the rate limit is relatively low for their chat.delete API at ~50 requests per minute.
The best strategy that respects the rate limit is to retrieve messages from the channel you want to clear, then delete the messages in batches under 50 that run on a minutely interval.
I've built a project containing an example of this batching that you can easily fork and deploy on Autocode - it lets you clear a channel via slash command (and allows you restrict access to the command to just certain users of course!). When you run /cmd clear in a channel, it marks that channel for clearing and runs the following code every minute until it deletes all the messages in the channel:
console.log(`About to clear ${messages.length} messages from #${channel.name}...`);
let deletionResults = await async.mapLimit(messages, 2, async (message) => {
try {
await lib.slack.messages['#0.6.1'].destroy({
id: clearedChannelId,
ts: message.ts,
as_user: true
});
return {
successful: true
};
} catch (e) {
return {
successful: false,
retryable: e.message && e.message.indexOf('ratelimited') !== -1
};
}
});
You can view the full code and a guide to deploying your own version here: https://autocode.com/src/jacoblee/slack-clear-messages/
Tip: if you gonna use the slack cleaner https://github.com/kfei/slack-cleaner
You will need to generate a token: https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens
If you like Python and have obtained a legacy API token from the slack api, you can delete all private messages you sent to a user with the following:
import requests
import sys
import time
from json import loads
# config - replace the bit between quotes with your "token"
token = 'xoxp-854385385283-5438342854238520-513620305190-505dbc3e1c83b6729e198b52f128ad69'
# replace 'Carl' with name of the person you were messaging
dm_name = 'Carl'
# helper methods
api = 'https://slack.com/api/'
suffix = 'token={0}&pretty=1'.format(token)
def fetch(route, args=''):
'''Make a GET request for data at `url` and return formatted JSON'''
url = api + route + '?' + suffix + '&' + args
return loads(requests.get(url).text)
# find the user whose dm messages should be removed
target_user = [i for i in fetch('users.list')['members'] if dm_name in i['real_name']]
if not target_user:
print(' ! your target user could not be found')
sys.exit()
# find the channel with messages to the target user
channel = [i for i in fetch('im.list')['ims'] if i['user'] == target_user[0]['id']]
if not channel:
print(' ! your target channel could not be found')
sys.exit()
# fetch and delete all messages
print(' * querying for channel', channel[0]['id'], 'with target user', target_user[0]['id'])
args = 'channel=' + channel[0]['id'] + '&limit=100'
result = fetch('conversations.history', args=args)
messages = result['messages']
print(' * has more:', result['has_more'], result.get('response_metadata', {}).get('next_cursor', ''))
while result['has_more']:
cursor = result['response_metadata']['next_cursor']
result = fetch('conversations.history', args=args + '&cursor=' + cursor)
messages += result['messages']
print(' * next page has more:', result['has_more'])
for idx, i in enumerate(messages):
# tier 3 method rate limit: https://api.slack.com/methods/chat.delete
# all rate limits: https://api.slack.com/docs/rate-limits#tiers
time.sleep(1.05)
result = fetch('chat.delete', args='channel={0}&ts={1}'.format(channel[0]['id'], i['ts']))
print(' * deleted', idx+1, 'of', len(messages), 'messages', i['text'])
if result.get('error', '') == 'ratelimited':
print('\n ! sorry there have been too many requests. Please wait a little bit and try again.')
sys.exit()
Here is a great chrome extension to bulk delete your slack channel/group/im messages - https://slackext.com/deleter , where you can filter the messages by star, time range, or users.
BTW, it also supports load all messages in recent version, then you can load your ~8k messages as you need.
There is a slack tool to delete all slack messages on your workspace. Check it out: https://www.messagebender.com

Failed to Connect with Websphere MQ SSL Channel through JNDI

My JMS client connects to WMQ through JNDI. The initial context factory used is com.ibm.mq.jms.context.WMQInitialContextFactory.
Currently, at WMQ side, there's a queue manager called TestMgr. Under this queue manager I created two channels. One is PLAIN.CHL which does not specify an SSL Cipher Spec, the other one is SSL.CHL which configured SSL Cipher Spec with RC4_MD5_US and SSL Authentication with Optional.
I have created a key store for the queue manager using IBM Key Management tool. The path of key db is [wmq_home]\qmgrs\TestMgr\ssl\key.
For channel PLAIN.CHL, I defined a queue connection factory like:
DEF QCF(PlainQCF) QMANAGER(TestMgr) CHANNEL(PLAIN.CHL) HOST(192.168.66.23) PORT(1414) TRANSPORT(client)
And under the SSL channel SSL.CHL, I defined a queue connection factory like:
DEF QCF(SSLQCF) QMANAGER(TestMgr) CHANNEL(SSL.CHL) HOST(192.168.66.23) PORT(1414) TRANSPORT(client) SSLCIPHERSUITE(SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5)
Now I only can create connection using the PlainQCF. But failed to look up the SSL queue connection factory. My code looks like:
Hashtable environment = new Hashtable();
environment.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.ibm.mq.jms.context.WMQInitialContextFactory");
environment.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "192.168.66.23:1414/SSL.CHL");
Context ctx = new InitialContext( environment );
QueueConnectionFactory qcf = (QueueConnectionFactory) ctx.lookup("SSLQCF");
qcf.createConnection();
....
Am I missing some context properties when looking up the SSL factory? connection And then I found the code is hanging on the line new InitialContext( environment ) for a long time, almost 5 minutes, and I got CC=2;RC=2009;AMQ9208... error.
Any suggestion would be appreciated. Is it true that SSL channel can't be connected by JNDI?
#T.Rob, thanks for your reply very much. But we still want to use WMQInitialContextFactory, so I'm afraid I still need to find solution for this.
I just defined the connection factory one time. The displayed info for the SSL queue connection factory like:
InitCtx> DISPLAY QCF(SSLQCF)
ASYNCEXCEPTION(ALL)
CCSID(819)
CHANNEL(SSL.CHL)
CLIENTRECONNECTOPTIONS(ASDEF)
CLIENTRECONNECTTIMEOUT(1800)
COMPHDR(NONE )
COMPMSG(NONE )
CONNECTIONNAMELIST(192.168.66.23(1414))
CONNOPT(STANDARD)
FAILIFQUIESCE(YES)
HOSTNAME(192.168.66.23)
LOCALADDRESS()
MAPNAMESTYLE(STANDARD)
MSGBATCHSZ(10)
MSGRETENTION(YES)
POLLINGINT(5000)
PORT(1414)
PROVIDERVERSION(UNSPECIFIED)
QMANAGER(TestMgr)
RESCANINT(5000)
SENDCHECKCOUNT(0)
SHARECONVALLOWED(YES)
SSLCIPHERSUITE(SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5)
SSLFIPSREQUIRED(NO)
SSLRESETCOUNT(0)
SYNCPOINTALLGETS(NO)
TARGCLIENTMATCHING(YES)
TEMPMODEL(SYSTEM.DEFAULT.MODEL.QUEUE)
TEMPQPREFIX()
TRANSPORT(CLIENT)
USECONNPOOLING(YES)
VERSION(7)
WILDCARDFORMAT(TOPIC_ONLY)
The JNDI Provider should be fine because I can look up the plain connection factory successfully. Also, for my client app, I extracted the cert from the key store which created for MQ server and imported it to the trust store(cacerts) of my JRE with alias name ibmwebspheremqtestmgr.
You are correct, with 2009 error there are some log entries:
=================================================================
4/20/2012 20:24:27 - Process(13768.3) User(MUSR_MQADMIN) Program(amqzmur0.exe)
Host(xxxx_host of my MQ) Installation(mqenv)
VRMF(7.1.0.0) QMgr(TestMgr)
AMQ6287: WebSphere MQ V7.1.0.0 (p000-L111019).
EXPLANATION:
WebSphere MQ system information:
Host Info :- Windows Server 2003, Build 3790: SP2 (MQ Windows 32-bit)
Installation :- C:\IBM\WebSphereMQ (mqenv)
Version :- 7.1.0.0 (p000-L111019)
ACTION:
None.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4/20/2012 20:24:27 - Process(7348.116) User(MUSR_MQADMIN) Program(amqrmppa.exe)
Host(xxxx_host of my MQ) Installation(mqenv)
VRMF(7.1.0.0) QMgr(TestMgr)
AMQ9639: Remote channel 'SSL.CHL' did not specify a CipherSpec.
EXPLANATION:
Remote channel 'SSL.CHL' did not specify a CipherSpec when the local channel
expected one to be specified.
The remote host is 'xxx_host of my app (192.168.66.25)'.
The channel did not start.
ACTION:
Change the remote channel 'SSL.CHL' on host 'xxx_host of my app (192.168.66.25)' to
specify a CipherSpec so that both ends of the channel have matching
CipherSpecs.
----- amqcccxa.c : 3817 -------------------------------------------------------
4/20/2012 20:24:27 - Process(7348.116) User(MUSR_MQADMIN) Program(amqrmppa.exe)
Host(my app host) Installation(mqenv)
VRMF(7.1.0.0) QMgr(TestMgr)
AMQ9999: Channel 'SSL.CHL' to host 'xxx_host of my app (192.168.66.25)' ended
abnormally.
====================================================================
I also got some confusion with the error log. My app staged at at a machine which is different from my MQ. But the log says the Change the remote channel 'SSL.CHL' on host 'xxx_host of my app (192.168.66.25)' to
specify a CipherSpec so that both ends of the channel have matching
CipherSpecs. How can I change the channel cipher spec on my app host?
updates on MQEnvironment...
reply the comments.
The value of MQEnvironment.sslCipherSuite is null, so it throws out NullPointerExcetpion when i put it the the env hashtable. But i tried another one environment.put(MQC.SSL_CIPHER_SUITE_PROPERTY, "SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5") and it still failed with 2009 error.
For JMSAdmin tool, i had changed the config to use WMQInitialContextFactory. The configuration like(JMSAdmin.config):
INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY=com.ibm.mq.jms.context.WMQInitialContextFactory
PROVIDER_URL=192.168.66.23:1414/SYSTEM.DEF.SVRCONN
The rest configuration leaves as default.
Kindly note, here i use the default channel SYSTEM.DEF.SVRCONN so that i can logon to admin console. If I change the channel to the SSL oneSSL.CHL, I also can't logon to admin console. The error happened here is just like the one in my client app.
Another clarification, in my client, i use follow code can connect to connect qmgr(TestMgr) successfully through channel SSL.CHL.
MQConnectionFactory factory = new MQConnectionFactory();
factory.setTransportType(JMSC.MQJMS_TP_CLIENT_MQ_TCPIP);
factory.setQueueManager("TestMgr");
factory.setSSLCipherSuite("SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5");
factory.setPort(1414);
factory.setHostName("192.168.66.23");
factory.setChannel("SSL.CHL");
MQConnection connection = (MQConnection) factory.createConnection();
And now the problem is just like you said, that's the initial context failed connect to qmgr through SSL channel. The option(use plain channel for initial context and ssl channel for connection factory) you provided works too. But I still want to know how to get initial context with ssl channel work. Thanks for you patience very much. Your updates will be appreciated.
thanks
I never really liked com.ibm.mq.jms.context.WMQInitialContextFactory very much. It stores the managed objects on a queue. So in order to lookup the connectionFactory, which tells JMS how to connect to the QMgr, it is first necessary to connect to the QMgr to make the JNDI call. Therefore, before you can debug the SSL connection, you need to know whether the underlying JNDI provider is working.
If you want to skip the MQ-based JNDI provider and just use the filesystem, see the updated version of Bobby Woolf's article here. If you want to continue with com.ibm.mq.jms.context.WMQInitialContextFactory, read on but be prepared to provide more configuration info.
When you run the JMSAdmin tool, do you display the objects after creating them? For example, here is one of my JMSAdmin.bat scripts:
# Connection Factory for Client mode
# Delete the Connection Factory if it exists
DELETE CF(JMSDEMOCF)
# Define the Connection Factory
DEFINE CF(JMSDEMOCF) +
SYNCPOINTALLGETS(YES) +
SSLCIPHERSUITE(NULL_SHA) +
TRAN(client) +
HOST(127.0.0.1) CHAN(SSL.SVRCONN) PORT(1414) +
QMGR( )
# Display the resulting definition
DISPLAY CF(JMSDEMOCF)
This deletes the object (because JMSAdmin doesn't have a define with replace option) then defines the object, then displays it. Do you in fact see both objects defined? Can you connect and interactively display them both? Can you update your question with the contents displayed?
If so, then what does the JNDI provider configuration look like with each sample program? The 2009 indicates that there is at least a connection to the QMgr being made, so it is important to determine whether the thing that suffering the broken connection is your app or the JNDI provider. To diagnose that requires the config info you are using for the JNDI provider and whether it is the same in the working and failing cases. If not, how do they differ?
Once you know whether it's the app or the JNDI provider that is causing the problem (or switch to another JNDI provider that doesn't require an MQ connection such as the filesystem initial context) then it will be possible to determine the next steps.
The article linked above has samples of code and managed object scripts that use a filesystem JNDI provider. You may notice my scripts pasted in above use the same QMgr name. That's because I wrote that part of the article. When I want to switch to SSL using those same samples, I just update the connectionFactory to point to the SSL channel and it works.
Here are the other bits from the sample that I've modified:
java -Djavax.net.debug=ssl ^
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=key2.jks ^
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=key2.jks ^
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=???????? ^
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=???????? ^
-cp "%CLASSPATH%" ^
com.ibm.examples.JMSDemo -pub -topic JMSDEMOPubTopic %*
Note: The ^ is Windows version of line continuation.
Then if there are problems, I follow the debugging scenario I described in this SO answer. Note that the app will require a truststore, even if you have SSLCAUTH(OPTIONAL) on your channel. This is because the app must always validate the QMgr's certificate, even if the app does not present its own certificate. In my case I was using SSLCAUTH(REQUIRED) so my app needed both a keystore and a truststore. Your question mentions that the QMgr has a keystore but does not say what you did for the application.
Finally, a 2009 will usually generate an entry in the QMgr error logs. If you continue to get the problem, please update your question with those log entries.
UPDATE:
Responding to the comments, the JMSAdmin tool is part of the WMQ package. However, WMQ it comes with jars for filesystem context and LDAP context. The WMQInitialContextFactory is optional and is delivered as SupportPac ME01. When using WMQInitialContextFactory with the JMSAdmin tool (or the JMSAdmin GUI or with WMQ Explorer) it is necessary to configure the PROVIDER_URL with the host, port and channel. For example:
PROVIDER_URL: <Hostname>:<port>/<SVRCONN Channel Name>
192.168.66.23:1414/SSL.SVRCONN
So after reviewing your post again, I realized that you did provide the config info for WMQInitialContextFactory. I was looking for a JMSADmin.config file but you have it in the environment hash table. And that is where the problem is. You are attempting to use the SSL channel for both the WMQInitialContextFactory and the connection factory. This is what is causing the lookup to fail. The WMQInitialContextFactory first makes a Java connection to the QMgre in order to look in the queue to obtain the administered objects such as QCF. In order to do that, it needs to know the ciphersuite that the channel is set up for in order to negotiate the handshake. Right now, the *only * place that ciphersuite is recorded is in the QCF definition.
Try adding the following line:
environment.put(MQEnvironment.sslCipherSuite, "SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5");
As per this Infocenter page, that should tell the context factory classes what ciphersuite to use. Of course, they also need to know where the trust store is (and possibly keystore if the channel has SSLCAUTH(RQUIRED) set) so you still need to get those values in the environment. You can use the command-line variables or try loading them into the environment using code. You'll need both -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=key2.jks and -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=????????.
The other option is to continue to use the plaintext channel for the WMQInitialContextFactory and the SSL channel for the application. If the plaintext channel has an MCAUSER for a non-privileged user ID, it can be restricted to only connect to the QMgr and access the queue that contains the administered objects. With those restrictions, anyone will be able to read the administered objects using that channel but not the application queues or administrative queues.

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