Replacement of the SSL certificate in vCenter Server Heartbeat with a new certificate

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• Cannot save vSphere Web Client after the replacement of the SSL certificate

  Hi all

  I have followed the Articles of Derek Seaman on the replacement of all the certificates in vSphere 5.1 and have since turned to the VMware KB Articles. I replaced the certificates for the SSO, the inventory Service and vCenter Server with no problems (other than having to use OpenSSL-Win64 for vCenter certificate that I could not get the x 86 version certificate of work, makes no sense, but I'll take the small victory).

  If you follow the guide of vmware to replace the web service certificate, http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC & docType = kc & docTypeID = DT_KB_1_1 & externalId = 2035010, I get to step 12, enter the VMware vSphere Client Web back to vCenter Single Sign On and the following error:

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  D:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphereWebClient\SsoRegTool > regTool.cmd registerService - cert "C:\ProgramData\VMware\vSphere Web Client\ssl" - ls - url ( https://(Server URL): 7444/lookupservice/sdk - username admin@system-domain - password (password) - dir 'D:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphereWebClient\SsoRegTool\sso_conf' - ip "*." ' * ' - serviceId-file 'D:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphereWebClient\serviceId'

  No file properties not found
  Initialization of provider of record...
  SSL certificates for https://vsphere.au.ray.com:7444/lookupservice/sdk
  SSL certificates for https://vsphere.au.ray.com:7444 / sso-adminserver/sdk
  Unhandled exception trying to escape: null
  Return code is: OperationFailed
  100

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  VMware technical support suggested I uninstall all components, delete all databases and try again. I have done this and have exactly the same result.

  Has anyone seen elsewhere or managed to solve?

  Chris

  So, I managed to solve this problem. Not sure that this applies to everyone, but my problem was caused by registering using among other names of the subject in the SSL certificate for the SSO rather than the common name of the certificate.

  For example, the server name is server1.company.com. It is the common name of the certificate. But one of SAN of the certificate has been "vSphere.company.com".  If I used this other name in one of the component records that they would fail. I found that I have to use the common name. Even if the alternative names of job access to via your browser web, there is no certificate warning, if the registration of components using these names, it would fail.

  It seems crazy that you can use any of the San... then why allow us to make?

  Initially, I tried to replace the authentication certificate ONLY when the town was called vsphere.company.com, rather than the hostname of the server, and which is installed. However, try to install the Web Client would fail. When you come to the step where you have to accept the certificate of SSO, the installation fails because the common name of the certificate does not have the host name of the SSO server. It seems insane to me... why the host name of the server running the SSO should still come in when all calls are over HTTPS is simply absurd!

  I confirmed this with VMware Technical Support and they checked my conclusions.

• Replacement of the SSL Cert - 5/vCenter vCenter Inventory Service

  Running on this issue during our next generation vCenter infrastructure 5 out.  I was wondering if someone else ran into the front.

  We create certificates signed internally and use these certificates to the virtual service centre and the inventory service.  I stop the vCenter service, replace the vCenter CERT, reset the DB password and then start the vCenter service.  Works very well and am able to connect to vCenter, but when I go to start the inventory (CERT for untouchables inventory service) service fails.  I worked with this in our lab, and he the certs could be replaced separated from another.  All ideas are welcome.

  Thank you

  When generate you your own pfx, what was the password?

  It must be "testpassword".

    openssl pkcs12 -export -in ./certs/rui.crt -inkey ./private/rui.key -name rui -passout pass:testpassword -out ./certs/rui.pfx
  

  If this is not the case, the inventory service does not start.

• How to install the ssl certificate in windows server 2008?

  Hello

  Can someone give me the steps to install the SSL certificate on my application hosted on windows server 2008 R2?

  Hello

  Although technet.microsoft.com should be the best forum for the problems of server below is a guide on how to install an SSL certificate.

  It will be useful.

  To install your newly acquired in IIS 7 SSL certificate, first copy the file somewhere on the server and then follow these instructions:

  1. Click on the start menu, go to administrativetools and click on Manager of Services Internet (IIS).
  2. Click the server name in the links on the left column. Double-click server certificates.

     

  3. In the Actions column to the right, click Complète Certificate Request...

     

  4. Click on the button with the three points, and then select the server certificate that you received from the certificate authority. If the certificate does not have a .cer file extension, select this option to display all types. Enter a friendly name that you can keep track of certificate on this server. Click OK.

     

  5. If successful, you will see your newly installed in the list certificate. If you receive an error indicating that the request or the private key is not found, make sure that you use the correct certificate and you install it on the same server that you generated the CSR on. If you are sure these two things, you just create a new certificate and reissue or replace the certificate. If you have problems with this, contact your certification authority.

     

  Bind the certificate to a Web site

  1. In the column of links on the left, expand the sites folder, and click the Web site that you want to bind the certificate to click links... in the right column.

     

  2. Click the Add... button.

     

  3. Change the Type to https , and then select the SSL certificate that you just installed. Click OK.

     

  4. You will now see the listed link for port 443. Click close.

     

  Install all the intermediate certificates

  Most of the SSL providers issue certificates of server out of an intermediate certificate so you will need to install the intermediate certificate on the server as well or your visitors will receive a certificate error not approved. You can install each intermediate certificate (sometimes there are more than one) by following these instructions:

  1. Download the intermediate certificate in a folder on the server.
  2. Double-click the certificate to open the certificate information.
  3. At the bottom of the general tab, click the install Certificate button to start the Certificate Import Wizard. Click Next.

     

  4. Select place all certificates in the following store , and then click Browse.

     

  5. Select the Show physical stores checkbox, then expand the Intermediate certificate authorities folder, select the below folder on the Local computer . Click OK. Click Next, and then click Finish to complete the installation of the intermediate certificate.

     

  You may need to restart IIS so that it starts the new certificate to give. You can verify that the certificate is installed correctly by visiting the site in your web browser using https rather than http.

  Links

  • Move or copy an SSL certificate on a Windows Server to another Windows Server
  • How to disable SSL 2.0 in IIS 7
  • How to configure the SSL in IIS 7.0
  • Video tutorials to install an SSL certificate in IIS 7 to NetoMeter

  Kind regards

  Joel

• Update the SSL certificate on a security server?

  Good afternoon everyone,

  I'm trying to update the SSL certificate on the server of our security, but I'm running into some problems.

  DigiCert (we get our certs of), not like the VMWare KB article order to request a 2048-bit crt, so we used their tool to generate our a commandsfor us:

  keytool - genkey-server alias - keyalg RSA - keysize 2048, FULL domain name -.jks keystore - dname 'CN = CNNAME, OR = OUNAME, O = ONAME, L = NAME, ST = STNAME, C = CNAME'

  keytool-certreq alias server-file FQDN.csr - FULL.jks domain name

  (I did not show the exact details of the CN name, etc.)

  It makes the keystore a .jks instead of a .p12

  Should this cause problems?

  
  Because after I imported the cert in the keystore, change the config locked file to reference the key file and restart the Server Security Service, it does not restart properly. (Defining the locked towards the old works fine keystore file, then restarting the service works find though.)

  This documented error in Event Viewer:

  Not able to create the com.vmware.vdi.ice.server.JMXServer.main(SourceFile:211) MBean server
  javax.management.MBeanException: Exception thrown in the startServer operation
  at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.StandardMetaDataImpl.invoke(StandardMetaDataImpl.java:435)
  at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MetaDataImpl.invoke(MetaDataImpl.java:220)
  at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:815)
  at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:784)
  at com.vmware.vdi.ice.server.JMXServer.main(SourceFile:209)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
  at net.propero.workspace.windowsinfrastructure.tunnelservice.TunnelService.run(SourceFile:34)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
  Caused by: java.lang.Exception: ice beginning: null
  at com.vmware.vdi.ice.server.Ice.startServer(SourceFile:695)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0 (Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
  at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.StandardMetaDataImpl.invoke(StandardMetaDataImpl.java:414)

  Should I request/pay for a new cert so my base keystore is .p12 instead of .jks?

  Hello

  I think that the command you mentioned creating a CSR only. You get a digicert certificate after sending this rea and create a keystore with whom?

  Please follow the steps in this KB to complete the whole process.

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1008705

  -noble

• The upgrade to vCenter Server to vCenter Server 5.1 5.1 update 1 when the SQL database is remote and vCenter Server Heartbeat is installed

  Hi guys,.

  I'm in the middle of an upgrade to vSphere 5.1 5.1 vSphere update 1. I have vCenter protected by HB and SQL on a separate computer (also protected by HB) I also run Syslog, Update Manager and Proxy authentication on vCenter.

  I've successfully upgraded HB on all 4 nodes (2 x vCenter & 2 x SQL) and started the upgrade components on the secondary according to the •vCenter Server Heartbeat 6.5 server and vCenter Update 1 Installation on Windows Server 2008 when the secondary server is virtual (PDF) http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vcenter-server-heartbeat-65-u1-installation-windows-2008-virtual-guide.pdf

  I got to step 3.c

  3. change the primary/active server role:

  a launch of the vCenter Server Heartbeat wizard configure server and click the tab of the Machine to change the server role for the current server (primary) to the active State and click Finish.

  b using the Service Control Manager, start the Server Heartbeat of VMware vCenter service.

  c using the vCenter Server Heartbeat Console, check that all the status icons on the server: summary page are green indicating that the boot process is completed and protected from all the services are started.

  d using the Service Control Manager, stop the service Server Heartbeat of VMware vCenter.

  As the vCenter service does not start, I'm stuck at this point. As far as I'm concerned, the error is quite logical. I've updated vCenter using the secondary server, and then I'm trying to connect (according to the guide) with another version that breaks down.

  If I continue with the services stop and launch the installer SSO, it is trying to perform an uninstall!

  Did I miss something in this upgrade?

  Concerning

  
  Ciaran

  Hi guys, VMware have finally updated the documentation to reflect the right way forward: https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/heartbeat_pubs.html U1 6.5 Select from the menu drop-down and you'll see the last date of update for each of the documentation is now 10/10/2013. The guide States now specifically to restore the vCenter database before proceeding with any other measure, this is copied below for convenience: "the upgrade of the main server of the upgrade process further guess upgrading the secondary server completed successfully. Procedure 1 before continuing the upgrade process, perform a restore of the database of vCenter Server, Single Sign-On database, VMware Update Manager database and SSL certificates that were backed up in step 4 on the secondary server. regards Ciaran

• How can I set up email when the field on the SSL certificate does not match?

  I am a customer of Dreamhost and don't know if our situation is unique or not, but both smtp and imap are "mail.example.com" even if the SSL certificate belongs to ' *. DreamHost.com'.

  I was not able to set up the email on my flame app because I get the following error:

  > Could not establish a connection with "mail.example.com". There may be a problem with your network or server.

  I think the problem is the lag of domain name, but I can't find a way to accept the certificate.

  Hello!

  According to the official DreamHost wiki site , you can try this (cut-and-pasted from the page). If it doesn't work, there are still other options available on the page.

  To connect to the mail server using the name of the server dreamhost.com instead of messagerie.votre_domaine.fr.

  Use the following steps to determine the name of the server to use:

     In the DreamHost Control Panel
     Click "Account Status" in the upper right hand corner
     Look for the "Your Email Culster:" at the bottom of the list.
     Find your cluster in the table below.
     Use the server name for the incoming server in your mail program.
  

  Name of Server Cluster e-mail
  homiemail-sub3 sub3.mail.dreamhost.com
  homiemail-sub4 sub4.mail.dreamhost.com
  homiemail-sub5 sub5.mail.dreamhost.com
  homiemail-master homie.mail.dreamhost.com

• Setting the SSL certificate for the web user interface

  How can I configure the SSL certificate for the management of a SG300 interface? I don't seem to find the configuration option in the web gui?

  Hello Dirk,.

  For import / create / modify h99350 ssl please go to ' ' security > SSL server > SSL server authentication settings.

  HTTPS is enabled by default.

  Thank you and best regards,

  Siva

• The SSO authentication: the SSL certificate is unknown

  Hello

  I'm trying to configure orchestrator solution to use SSO for authentication. Although the vCenter certificate is installed and displayed in the trust to SSL Manager, I get the following error:

  The SSL certificate is unknown. You can fix this in the SSL Certificate tab.

  Tried to reinstall the certificate, restart the device - without success. Username and password are correct.

  I use Version of the device: 5.5.0.0 build 1282845, vCenter 5.5.0, 1476327.

  How can I solve this problem?

  By "vCenter certificate is installed," do you mean Certificate SSL VC (imported from https://[vc-ip]:443)?

  For SSO authentication, you must also import the UNIQUE https://[sso-ip]:7444 authentication certificate

• Unable to connect to the VMware Research Service - the SSL certificate verification failed

  Hello world

  to implement the new vCSA 5.1 but I get an error when you try to connect via browser Web Client.

  "Impossible to connect to the VMware Research Service . https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:7444/lookupservice/sdk - The SSL certificate check failed. »

  I've found this KB

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC & docType = kc & externalId = 2033338 & sliceId = 1 & docTypeID = DT_KB_1_1 & dialogID = 423540040 & StateID = 1% 200% 20423538503

  The manual/work around seems to be a lot of work for me and perhaps this will cause other problems in the service due to problems of certification :/

  I also think that this cannot be the solution for a whole new vCSAppliance...-_-

  I am also able to go to https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9443 / admin-app

  is it correct for the device?

  You need to regenerate the certificate for Server Appliance after change of IP/hostname.

  Visit this link: http://www.virtual-blog.com/2012/09/failed-to-connect-to-vmware-lookup-service/

  Also, the admin/management interface is https://: 5480

  Lack of credentials [root/vmware]

  HTH

• For the SSL certificate expiration date

  Hello

  We use Adobe LiveCycle Installation of JBoss, and the SSL certificate that we use to enable rights management has expired.

  We have created a new which now works fine, but we would like to know if there is a way to control or extend the expiration date of the certificate, such as 3 months is a very short time.

  Kind regards

  Marwa

  The server SSL certificate is used for active between Acrobat and LiveCycle Rights Management Server to encrypt HTTP traffic.  It 'does NOT' management of rights in itself.  In other words, even if at the end of the ceriticate SSL, Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management will continue to work.

  You do not control the expiration date of the certificate.  The -validity argument allows you to control, in terms of days.  3650 will set the expiry of 10 years from the date of creation.

  More details here:

  http://blogs.Adobe.com/LiveCycle/2007/10/configuring_jboss_403_sp1_for_1.html

• What is the latest version of vCenter Server

  Hello

  We are currently running version host with vCenter Server version 4.1.0 build-26174 ESX 4.0.0 build-345043 and vSphere Clien v4.1.0 Build-345043.

  Can someone counsel who is the latest version of vCenter server I can update?

  Concerning

  You can upgrade to level either vCenter Server 4.1 update 2 (which was released yesterday) or vCenter Server 5.0 to manage your ESX 4.0 host. With vCenter Server 5.0, are supported versions 4.x host except ESXi 4.0 U2. See http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php

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• problems to install the latest plugin from vcenter server 5.0.0.149 on the vco 4.1.1 build 733.

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  If I go to the plugins tab I see vCenter Server 5.0.0.149 Installation OK

  I configured a host esx to vCenter Server tab, but as soon as I click on 'Apply' it starts to load forever.

  I tried to restart the server vco and vco configuration services, but the problem remains unchanged. In the server.log I couldn't find anything relevant, but it is still attatched

  Hello!

  Try increasing the memory for the configurator web-tool, as described in the release notes:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/Orchestrator/doc/vCenter-server-plugin-50-release-notes.html

  See you soon,.

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• Where can I find the name of a vCenter Server?

  For an ESX Server, I can find the name using the $_ - & gt; Summary - & gt; config - & gt; name, where $_ is a host view.

  How to find the name of a vCenter Server?  There really a distinct name to the host name of the system?  If this isn't the case, I would still find it.

  Where it appears in the object hierarchy?

  Thank you.

  3 ways:

  (1) because you connect to a vCenter server, you can retrieve the name of the - server variable

  2) there is an advanced vpx option that contains the name of the instance of vCenter: VirtualCenter.InstanceName who should be its host name, either long or short

  (3) If you are on a host ESX (i) which is managed by vCenter host, there is an exposed property called managementServerIp - http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/vim.host.Summary.html#managementServerIp where you can do a search of reserve if you have correctly configured to get FULL of DNS domain name

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• Do need me a separate license for VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat for a remote SQL Server database?

  Do need me a separate license for VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat for a remote SQL Server database?

  Only a single vCenter Server Heartbeat license is necessary to protect the components of the vCenter Server installed remotely, including SQL Server. A single license is also used for several UNIQUE for vCenter Server services protected authentication servers. A license is required per instance of vCenter Server.