Getting Started with mCert

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About mCert

mCert is small script to notify before ssl expiration. it will help you to renew your ssl before getting expired.

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• Lets Monitor SSL with mCert free of cost : mCert-Tracker - Demo

Mode of alert Notification

There are two Notification methods are available. you can use both or any one.

• Email Notification
• Slack Notification

Prerequisite

if you want get notification on your email you must need to install mSlack. if you want to get slack notification you must need to install mSlack accordingly. or you can install and configure both if you wish to get notification on both.

• mSend - To get email notification - Installation steps
• mSlack - To get slack notification - It will install automatically.

Installation

sudo curl -sL "https://github.com/HarryTheDevOpsGuy/mCert/raw/master/$(uname -p)/mcert" -o /usr/bin/mcert
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/mcert

# Verify installation
mcert -v

# Check SSL Status
mcert -d "www.google.com facebook.com"

Help Page

## mcert -h

mCert [OPTION]
-d domain_name   Domain to test ssl expiration
-x days          Certificate expiration interval (eg. if cert_date days)
-f domain_file   File with a list of FQDNs|domains
-a email         Send Email Notification (Combine Report).
-e email         Send Email Notification
-s '#devops'      Send Slack Notification
-q               Don't print anything on the console
-b               Display header on the console
-r               Attach full csv report with combine report
-V               enable verbose
-h               Display this help
-v               Display version

Examples

Here we have some of examples, how we can use this utility.

Example 1

To Test www.google.com ssl certificate if certificate expiry remaining day less than 60 day. it will send email notification at your_email@domain.com.

mcert -d www.google.com -e your_email@domain.com -x 60 -V

• -x 60 check certificate expiration days.
• -V enable verbose mode

Example 2

if you want to test multiple domains you can run below command. it will send email and slack notification if any domain is going to expire within 60 days.

mcert -d "www.google.com facebook.com" -s "#devops" -e "your_email@domain.com" -x 60 -V

Example 3

if you want to test multiple domains you can run below command. it will send email and slack notification if any domain is going to expire within 60 days.

Here you can create list of domains in txt file.

#cat /opt/domains.txt
www.google.com
www.facebook.com
www.apple.com

mcert -f "/opt/domains.txt" -s "#devops" -e "your_email@domain.com" -x 60 -V

• -f - to provide domain list file path.

Email Notification Template | Report

### Do you want monitor your website free of cost ? Yes, its free of cost, you can submit your websites and email id, and we will notify you accordingly.

Step To submit New Domain : mCert-Tracker

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