How to integrate client certificate with jmeter

Question

I am facing issue with the execution of the APIs in Jmeter. Our APIs have client certificate in .pfx format. I have converted the same in .jks and updated the same in the system.properties of jmeter. In jmeter I have created a csv file to pick up the created alias. However, the error is shown as

Error: Response message: Non HTTP response message: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No certificate found for alias:'certalias'

Below is my alias info: Alias name: certalias Creation date: Nov 8, 2018 Entry type: PrivateKeyEntry Certificate chain length: 1 Certificate[1]:

Jmeter Log: 2018-11-13 11:16:08,949 WARN o.a.j.u.SSLManager: Keystore file not found, loading empty keystore

Can you please help me with the integration of our client certificate with the Jmeter.

Thanks in advance.

can you show your test plan and content of system.properties ? thx — UBIK LOAD PACK

Dmitri T Dmitri T · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-13T09:25:15

I don't think you need to convert the .pfx into as .pfx is a PKCS12 certificate type and JMeter should support it out of the box.

Make sure to add the next lines to system.properties file:

javax.net.ssl.keyStore=your_certificate.pfx
javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=your_certificate_password
javax.net.ssl.keyStoreType=pkcs12

JMeter restart will be required to pick the properties up.

If you have > 1 certificates in the keystore you can select the exact certificate(s) by setting the following properties

https.keyStoreStartIndex=0
https.keyStoreEndIndex=0

By default JMeter will go for the first certificate in the keystore, if your certalias is not the first - amend the properties accordingly.

More information: How to Set Your JMeter Load Test to Use Client Side Certificates

How to integrate client certificate with jmeter

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