Configuring Windchill with Azure SQL Database to Use JDBC over SSL

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The configuration steps to enable secure communication between Windchill Server and Azure SQL Server database using JDBC over SSL are as follows:

1. Fetch the SSL Certificate from Azure SQL server database using the following sample command:

openssl s_client -showcerts -connect <DB_SERVER_HOSTNAME>:443 </dev/null|openssl x509 -outform PEM >dbcertfile.pem

2. Import the SSL Certificate into a trust store on the Windchill Server client using the following sample command:

keytool -importcert -file dbcertfile.pem -keystore <JAVA_HOME>/lib/security/cacerts -alias testJDBCSSL

3. Add the below properties to the site.xconf file and propagate these to the db.properties file using xconfmanager utility.

wt.pom.dbConnectionPropertiesNameList=encrypt,javax.net.ssl.trustStore
wt.pom.dbConnectionPropertiesValueList=true,{wt.jdk}/lib/security/cacerts

For further information on using the xconfmanager utility, see Using the xconfmanager Utility.

4. Restart the Windchill Server.