SSL Problem Received fatal alert: certificate_unknown and Caused by: java.security.cert.CertificateExpiredException: NotAfter

In my Elastic serarch version 5.5.1 version search is not working and noticed some errors in log file.

Node 2 error : SSL Problem Received fatal alert: certificate_unknown
Please verify certs files and let me know the reason and resolution for this issue.
I have attached Search guard config file, keystore and tructkey files, elasticsearch.yml and elastic log file from stage nodes.

Node1.zip (623.0 KB)

  • [Elasticsearch logfiles

elastic552stage_node2bkp.log.gz (1.3 MB)

In production ES log showing below error message :
Caused by: java.security.cert.CertificateExpiredException: NotAfter: Fri Sep 20 16:10:14 EDT 2019
at sun.security.x509.CertificateValidity.valid(CertificateValidity.java:274) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.x509.X509CertImpl.checkValidity(X509CertImpl.java:629) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.provider.certpath.BasicChecker.verifyTimestamp(BasicChecker.java:190) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.provider.certpath.BasicChecker.check(BasicChecker.java:144) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.provider.certpath.PKIXMasterCertPathValidator.validate(PKIXMasterCertPathValidator.java:119) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.provider.certpath.PKIXCertPathValidator.validate(PKIXCertPathValidator.java:212) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.provider.certpath.PKIXCertPathValidator.validate(PKIXCertPathValidator.java:140) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.provider.certpath.PKIXCertPathValidator.engineValidate(PKIXCertPathValidator.java:79) ~[?:?]
at java.security.cert.CertPathValidator.validate(CertPathValidator.java:292) ~[?:1.8.0_40]
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doValidate(PKIXValidator.java:347) ~[?:?]
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:260) ~[?:?]

Your certificates are expired. You need to create new ones. We recommend to use Offline TLS Tool | Security for Elasticsearch | Search Guard for that purpose.

we have admin and other TTL certs in SG storage already. so can you please let me the SG cert update procedure from given url.

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