OCSP Monitor / OCSP Client for Surveillance & Highavailability
Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) Validation Authority servers are the cornerstone of a trusted PKI infrastructure, providing essential e-ID validation services and are basis for managing the liability risk offered by a trust service provider. It is crucial that they are correctly configured, remain highly available to relying parties and are not subject to internal or external attacks. Often the SLA will specify availability and response time criteria. OCSP Monitor has been designed to perform these management audit and reporting tasks in an automated manner and alert administrators to any issues that arise using email or SMS messages.
OCSP Monitor is a must have product for any organisation providing OCSP services. It enables you to identify issues and fix unexpected conditions before your customers / users report them to you! In fact OCSP Monitor is a useful OCSP client tool for organisations that consume OCSP services under an SLA. It enables then to measure the key performance indicators attained by their service providers.
Why use OCSP Monitor?
- Monitor one or more OCSP services for correct functioning, unexpected results, availability and performance - automatically and continuously
- Use simple tests to check for OCSP Responder availability and obtain summary SLA data
- Use multiple tests within a test scenario to check compliance with expected validation policy settings and review any detailed error reports and end of day test summary reports
- Select which admin staff receive error reports and summary reports by email and/ or SMS
- Test all accessible OCSP responders (primary, back-up, test) from a single location with a single OCSP client software
- OCSP Monitor is an RFC 2560 compliant OCSP client software and can communicate with any compliant OCSP server
- Easy to deploy and use - no server-side component or agent is required for monitoring