JMeter JMS: Getting Error: Failed to connect via SSL to [ssl://<server-name>:7352]: Received fatal alert: protocol_version

Question

I'm trying to publish message to a Tibco Queue on a SSL Tibco Server through JMeter 5.4.1 using JMS Point-to-Point Logic Controller.

JMS Point To Point Controller Config

But I'm getting the following error message:

2021-06-13 12:25:46,278 ERROR o.a.j.p.j.s.JMSSampler: Not permitted: Failed to connect to any server at: ssl://[server-name]:7352, ssl://[server-name]:7352 [Error: Failed to connect via SSL to [ssl://[server-name]:7352]: Received fatal alert: protocol_version: url that returned this exception = SSL://[server-name]:7352 ] javax.naming.AuthenticationException: Not permitted: Failed to connect to any server at: ssl://[server-name]:7352, ssl://[server-name]:7352 [Error: Failed to connect via SSL to [ssl://[server-name]:7352]: Received fatal alert: protocol_version: url that returned this exception = SSL://[server-name] ] at com.tibco.tibjms.naming.TibjmsContext.lookup(TibjmsContext.java:670) ~[tibjms.jar:8.0.0] at com.tibco.tibjms.naming.TibjmsContext.lookup(TibjmsContext.java:491) ~[tibjms.jar:8.0.0] at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:417) ~[?:1.8.0_291] at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.jms.sampler.JMSSampler.threadStarted(JMSSampler.java:638) [ApacheJMeter_jms.jar:5.4.1] at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread$ThreadListenerTraverser.addNode(JMeterThread.java:784) [ApacheJMeter_core.jar:5.4.1] at org.apache.jorphan.collections.HashTree.traverseInto(HashTree.java:993) [jorphan.jar:5.4.1] at org.apache.jorphan.collections.HashTree.traverse(HashTree.java:976) [jorphan.jar:5.4.1] at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.threadStarted(JMeterThread.java:752) [ApacheJMeter_core.jar:5.4.1] at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.initRun(JMeterThread.java:740) [ApacheJMeter_core.jar:5.4.1] at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:252) [ApacheJMeter_core.jar:5.4.1]

I tried: openssl s_client -connect [server-name]:7352

It gave the following output:

SSL-Session: Protocol : TLSv1.2 Cipher : ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 Session-ID: Session-ID-ctx:

So added the following line in jmeter.properties file.

https.default.protocol=TLSv1.2

Also commented jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms from java.security file for JDK (I'm using jdk1.8.0_291)

#    jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1.1, RC4, DES, MD5withRSA, \
#    DH keySize < 1024, EC keySize < 224, 3DES_EDE_CBC, anon, NULL, \
#    include jdk.disabled.namedCurves

But still I'm getting the same error. Someone please help.

Dmitri T Dmitri T · Accepted Answer · 2021-06-14T05:30:16

I think you're using the wrong property (not only the wrong property but the wrong place as well), you're setting default protocol for HTTPS, while you need to set it for TLS, i.e. add the next line to system.properties file

jdk.tls.client.protocols=TLSv1.2

JMeter restart will be required to apply this property.

If it won't help or you will get different errors - consider adding the next line there as well:

javax.net.debug=all

and then check jmeter.log file and stdout for any suspicious entries

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JMeter JMS: Getting Error: Failed to connect via SSL to [ssl://<server-name>:7352]: Received fatal alert: protocol_version

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