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3 Register the Management Agent certificate with the vRealize Appliance management site.
a Open a command prompt as an administrator and navigate to the Cafe directory on the machine
on which the Management Agent is installed at <vra-installation-dir>\Management
Agent\Tools\Cafe, typically C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\vCAC\Management
Agent\Tools\Cafe
b Type the Vcac-Config.exe RegisterNode command with options to register the Management
Agent identifier and certificate in one step. Include the Management Agent identifier you recorded
earlier as the value for the -nd option and the thumbprint of the new certificate as the value of the
-tp.
Table 66. Required Options and Arguments for Vcac-Config.exe RegisterNode
Option Argument Notes
-url
"vra-va-hostname.domain.name:5480" The URL of the management site host,
including a port specification
-cu
"root" The user name, which must be the root
user
-cp
"password" Password for the root user as a quoted
string
-hn
"machine-hostname.domain.name" The machine name of the Management
Agent host, including domain information
-nd
"00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" Management Agent identifier
-tp
"0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Thumbprint for the new certificate
The following example shows the command format:
Vcac-Config.exe RegisterNode -v -url "vra-va-hostname.domain.name:5480"
-cu "root" -cp "password" -hn "machine-hostname.domain.name"
-nd "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
-tp "0000000000000000000000000000000000000000"
Example: Command to Register a Management Agent Certificate
Vcac-Config.exe RegisterNode -v -url "vra-va.eng.mycompany:5480" -cu "root" -cp
"secret" -hn "iaas.eng.mycompany" -nd "C816CFBX-4830-4FD2-8951-C17429CEA291" -tp
"70928851D5B72B206E4B1CF9F6ED953EE1103DED"
Resolve Certificate Revocation Errors
If you have a certificates generated by a Certificate Authority that is not located on the addressable
network, HTTP requests will fail with an invalid certificate error. You can resolve this issue by editing the
web.config file so that web applications on vRealize Automation components ignore certificate
revocation errors.
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