Hey there,
I am trying to create an automated workflow for a BigFix integration, However, the connection is failing. I keep getting:
Max retries exceeded with url: /api/help (Caused by NewConnectionError(’<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object >: Failed to establish a new connection.
What am I doing wrong ?
Hi @zeroproxy, are you looking at the InsightVM Automated Workflow or are you building an Insight Connect Workflow using the Trigger from an Insight Connect Bigfix plugin?
Hey @dreadpir8robots, I am using the InsightVM Automated WorkFlow.
Thanks for confirming.
While I don’t have personal experience of this plugin, the error message you pasted makes me think that your R7 Orchestrator can’t connect to your BigFix server:
NewConnectionError(’<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object >: Failed to establish a new connection.
This error message looks like it’s from within the widely-used urllib3 Python library, and is pretty generic. It doesn’t give much of a hint as to why it couldn’t establish the connection. I guess there’s no more error message than what you’ve pasted (no ErrNo or anything like that)?
For now, it’s worth considering some standard troubleshooting steps for this sort of issue:
- Are you 100% confident that the URL you’ve configured is correct?
- Can your Rapid7 Orchestrator connect to
<bigfix_server>:52311
(replacing the value with your specific hostname)? e.g. could be blocked by a firewall.
Hey @dreadpir8robots , so after troubleshooting some more I found out that the bigfix application is actually on a different domain than the orchestrator. So thats my next problem
Good luck. Hopefully someone in your organization can help you untangle what’s necessary (firewall changes maybe?) to get the Orchestrator talking to the BigFix server.