I am working on an alarm when a TLS connection is blocked because the
certificate identity (the subjAltName) does not resolve to the same IP
address as the request was sent to:

Subject: Alarm SPX00041: The certificate identity does not match the
request address
Message from sipXecs
Alarm: SPX00041
Reported on: cbeetonscs.ca.nortel.com
Reported at: 2010-02-22T18:18:06.092322Z
Severity: CRIT
Alarm Text: The expected address is
bcmdesk2041.ca.nortel.com(47.135.152.41), but the certificate contains
the following identities: bcmdesk2041.com
Suggested Resolution: This is a security violation because the identity
encapsulated in the remote certificate does not match the address it
came from. Ensure that the certificate identity resolves to the request
address.

Does this look correct?  Clear?

I have thought about raising an INFO alarm when the identity contained
in the TLS certificate does not map to an internal TLS Peer.  There is
nothing really wrong with this; it just means that users of the remote
system will not be assigned permissions and will not be allowed access
to resources which require permissions; but it can be tricky to figure
out what the TLS Peer name should be, so this alarm would list the
identities contained in the certificate:

Subject: Alarm SPX00042: The certificate identity does not map to a TLS
Peer
Message from sipXecs
Alarm: SPX00042
Reported on: cbeetonscs.ca.nortel.com
Reported at: 2010-02-22T18:18:06.092322Z
Severity: INFO
Alarm Text: The identities contained in the TLS certificate do not map
to a TLS Peer: bcmdesk2041.com
Suggested Resolution: This means that users of the remote system will
not be assigned permissions and will not be allowed access to resources
which require permissions.  If desired, create a TLS Peer using one of
the certificate identities.

Any suggestions for improvement?

Thanks,
Carolyn
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