tree 4263838834bbfc9f595610d44ea82ea8140542d0
parent 099225cc9300c8e06b742a48318df75b0366561f
author Abhilash Raju <abhilash.kollam@gmail.com> 1717432817 -0500
committer Ed Tanous <ed@tanous.net> 1718032739 +0000

MTLS Client: Enabling mtls support in http_client

http_client currently does not uses mtls client certificates. This is
a good feature for both authentication and authorization purpose.
It will help external servers to trust the identity of bmc for better
security.This patch will add MTLS client certificate support for bmcweb

This is a needed feature to support secure redfish aggregation between
BMCs.
To support secure aggregation BMCs should be provisioned with CA signed
certificate with an authorized username as the subject name field of the
certificate.
With the support of strong MTLS authentication from Bmcweb server we can
use the MTLS path to enable secure redfish aggregation among BMCs. This
can avoid complexities and extra API calls needed for token based
approach.

Tested by:

Aggregation Test1:

1) Setup two instance of romulus qemu session at different ports.This
   will act as two BMCs
2) Installed CA root certificates at /etc/ssl/certs/authority in both
   BMCs
3) Installed server.pem and client.pem entity certificates signed by the
   root CA at /etc/ssl/certs/https folder in both BMCs
4) Enable aggregation for Bmcweb.
5) Fired several redfish queries to BMC1

Result
Observed that the aggregation worked fine. User session created using
username mentined in the CN field of certificate.

Aggregation Test2:

Followed same steps from Aggregation Test1 with modification in step 3
In step3 installed only the server.pem.

Result

Bmcweb ran as usual. But aggregation failed to collect resources from
BMC2. No crash observed.

Redfish Event Test:

Subscribed for redfish events using test server.
Fired redfish test events from BMC.

Result:
Events reached server successfully.

Change-Id: Id8cccf9beec77da0f16adb72d52f3adf46347d06
Signed-off-by: Abhilash Raju <abhilash.kollam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ed Tanous <etanous@nvidia.com>