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Table Of Contents
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Contents
- Managing vRealize Automation
- Updated Information
- Maintaining and Customizing vRealize Automation Components and Options
- Broadcast a Message on the Message Board Portlet
- Starting Up and Shutting Down vRealize Automation
- Updating vRealize Automation Certificates
- Extracting Certificates and Private Keys
- Replace Certificates in the vRealize Automation Appliance
- Replace the Infrastructure as a Service Certificate
- Replace the IaaS Manager Service Certificate
- Update Embedded vRealize Orchestrator to Trust vRealize Automation Certificates
- Update External vRealize Orchestrator to Trust vRealize Automation Certificates
- Updating the vRealize Automation Appliance Management Site Certificate
- Replace a Management Agent Certificate
- Change the Polling Method for Certificates
- Managing the vRealize Automation Postgres Appliance Database
- Backup and Recovery for vRealize Automation Installations
- The Customer Experience Improvement Program
- Adjusting System Settings
- Monitoring vRealize Automation
- Monitoring vRealize Automation Health
- Monitoring and Managing Resources
- Monitoring Containers
- Bulk Import, Update, or Migrate Virtual Machines
What to do next
Update all management agents to recognize the new certificate.
For distributed deployments, you can update management agents manually or automatically. For minimal
installations, you must update agents manually.
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For information about automatic update, see Automatically Update Management Agents in a
Distributed Environment to Recognize a vRealize Automation Appliance Management Site Certificate.
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For information about manual update, see Manually Update Management Agent Certificate
Recognition.
Update Management Agent Certificate Recognition
After replacing a vRealize Automation appliance management site certificate, you must update all
management agents to recognize the new certificate and to reestablish trusted communications between
the virtual appliance management site and management agents on IaaS hosts.
Each IaaS host runs a management agent and each management agent must be updated. Minimal
deployments must be updated manually, while distributed deployments can be updated manually or by
using an automated process.
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Manually Update Management Agent Certificate Recognition
After replacing a vRealize Automation appliance management site certificate, you must update
Management Agents manually to recognize the new certificate to reestablish trusted
communications between the virtual appliance management site and Management Agents on IaaS
hosts.
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Automatically Update Management Agents in a Distributed Environment to Recognize a vRealize
Automation Appliance Management Site Certificate
After the management site certificate is updated in a high-availability deployment, the management
agent configuration must also be updated to recognize the new certificate and reestablish trusted
communication.
Manually Update Management Agent Certificate Recognition
After replacing a vRealize Automation appliance management site certificate, you must update
Management Agents manually to recognize the new certificate to reestablish trusted communications
between the virtual appliance management site and Management Agents on IaaS hosts.
Perform these steps for each Management Agent in your deployment after you replace a certificate for
the vRealize Automation appliance management site.
For distributed deployments, you can update Management Agents manually or automatically. For
information about automatic update, see Automatically Update Management Agents in a Distributed
Environment to Recognize a vRealize Automation Appliance Management Site Certificate.
Prerequisites
Obtain the SHA1 thumbprints of the new vRealize Automation appliance management site certificate.
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