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5 Select the certificate type from the Certificate Action menu.
If you are using a PEM-encoded certificate, for example for a distributed environment, select Import.
Certificates that you import must be trusted and must also be applicable to all instances of vRealize
Appliance and any load balancer through the use of Subject Alternative Name (SAN) certificates.
Note If you use certificate chains, specify the certificates in the following order:
n
Client/server certificate signed by the intermediate CA certificate
n
One or more intermediate certificates
n
A root CA certificate
Option Action
Import a Copy the certificate values from BEGIN PRIVATE KEY to END PRIVATE KEY,
including the header and footer, and paste them in the RSA Private Key text
box.
b Copy the certificate values from BEGIN CERTIFICATE to END
CERTIFICATE, including the header and footer, and paste them in the
Certificate Chain text box. For multiple certificate values, include a BEGIN
CERTIFICATE header and END CERTIFICATE footer for each certificate.
c (Optional) If your certificate uses a pass phrase to encrypt the certificate key,
copy the pass phrase and paste it in the Passphrase text box.
Generate Certificate a Type a common name for the self-signed certificate in the Common Name
text box. You can use the fully qualified domain name of the virtual appliance
(hostname.domain.name) or a wild card, such as *.mycompany.com. If you
use a load balancer, you need to specify the FQDN of the load balancer or a
wildcard that matches the name of the load balancer. If the name is the same
as the host name for the virtual appliance, you can leave the text box empty.
Do not accept a default value if one is shown, unless it matches the host
name of the virtual appliance.
b Type your organization name, such as your company name, in the
Organization text box.
c Type your organizational unit, such as your department name or location, in
the Organizational Unit text box.
d Type a two-letter ISO 3166 country code, such as US, in the Country text
box.
Keep Existing Leave the current SSL configuration. Select this option to cancel your changes.
6 Click Save Settings to save host information and SSL configuration.
7 If required by your network or load balancer, copy the imported or newly created certificate to the
virtual appliance load balancer.
You might need to enable root SSH access in order to export the certificate.
a If not already logged in, log in to the Virtual Appliance Management Console as root.
b Click the Admin tab.
c Click the Admin sub menu.
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