6.5

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Before broker agents can communicate with the vRealize Operations for Published Applications adapter, the
adapter certicate must be shared with the agents, and the broker agent certicate must be shared with the
adapter. The process of sharing these certicates if referred to as certicate pairing.
The following actions occur during the certicate pairing process:
1 The broker agent's certicate is encrypted with the adapter's server key.
2 A connection is opened to the certicate management server and the encrypted certicate is passed to
the adapter instance. The adapter decrypts the broker agent's certicate by using the server key. If
decryption fails, an error is returned to the broker agent.
3 The broker agent's certicate is placed in the adapter's trust store.
4 The adapter's certicate is encrypted with the adapter's server key.
5 The encrypted certicate is returned to the broker agent. The broker agent decrypts the adapter's
certicate by using the server key. If decryption fails, an error is returned to the user.
6 The adapter's certicate is placed in the broker agent's trust store.
7 The adapter's certicate is sent to all XD-XA hosts via Group Policy.
After the certicates are successfully paired, they are cached in the trust stores for each individual
component. The broker certicate and the trust store are sent to all session hosts. The adapter certicate is
stored in the trust store and the broker certicate is stored in the v4pa-brokeragent.jks. If you provision a
new XD-XA server, the adapter's certicate is sent to the server by using the Group Policy, and you do not
need to pair the certicates again. However, if either the adapter or broker agent certicate changes, you
must pair the certicates again.
You use the vRealize Operations for Published Applications Broker Agent Seings wizard to pair
certicates.
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