6.5.1
Table Of Contents
- Platform Services Controller Administration
- Contents
- About Platform Services Controller Administration
- Updated Information
- Getting Started with Platform Services Controller
- vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller Deployment Types
- Deployment Topologies with External Platform Services Controller Instances and High Availability
- Understanding vSphere Domains, Domain Names, and Sites
- Platform Services Controller Capabilities
- Managing Platform Services Controller Services
- Managing the Platform Services Controller Appliance
- vSphere Authentication with vCenter Single Sign-On
- Understanding vCenter Single Sign-On
- Configuring vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Sources
- Identity Sources for vCenter Server with vCenter Single Sign-On
- Set the Default Domain for vCenter Single Sign-On
- Add a vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Source
- Edit a vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Source
- Remove a vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Source
- Use vCenter Single Sign-On With Windows Session Authentication
- vCenter Server Two-Factor Authentication
- Using vCenter Single Sign-On as the Identity Provider for Another Service Provider
- Security Token Service STS
- Managing vCenter Single Sign-On Policies
- Managing vCenter Single Sign-On Users and Groups
- Add vCenter Single Sign-On Users
- Disable and Enable vCenter Single Sign-On Users
- Delete a vCenter Single Sign-On User
- Edit a vCenter Single Sign-On User
- Add a vCenter Single Sign-On Group
- Add Members to a vCenter Single Sign-On Group
- Remove Members From a vCenter Single Sign-On Group
- Delete vCenter Single Sign-On Solution Users
- Change Your vCenter Single Sign-On Password
- vCenter Single Sign-On Security Best Practices
- vSphere Security Certificates
- Certificate Requirements for Different Solution Paths
- Certificate Management Overview
- Managing Certificates with the Platform Services Controller Web Interface
- Explore Certificate Stores from the Platform Services Controller Web Interface
- Replace Certificates with New VMCA-Signed Certificates from the Platform Services Controller Web Interface
- Make VMCA an Intermediate Certificate Authority from the Platform Services Controller Web Interface
- Set up Your System to Use Custom Certificates from the Platform Services Controller
- Managing Certificates from the vSphere Web Client
- Managing Certificates with the vSphere Certificate Manager Utility
- Certificate Manager Options and the Workflows in This Document
- Regenerate a New VMCA Root Certificate and Replace All Certificates
- Make VMCA an Intermediate Certificate Authority (Certificate Manager)
- Generate CSR with vSphere Certificate Manager and Prepare Root Certificate (Intermediate CA)
- Replace VMCA Root Certificate with Custom Signing Certificate and Replace All Certificates
- Replace Machine SSL Certificate with VMCA Certificate (Intermediate CA)
- Replace Solution User Certificates with VMCA Certificates (Intermediate CA)
- Replace All Certificates with Custom Certificate (Certificate Manager)
- Revert Last Performed Operation by Republishing Old Certificates
- Reset All Certificates
- Manual Certificate Replacement
- Managing Services and Certificates With CLI Commands
- Troubleshooting Platform Services Controller
- Determining the Cause of a Lookup Service Error
- Unable to Log In Using Active Directory Domain Authentication
- vCenter Server Login Fails Because the User Account Is Locked
- VMware Directory Service Replication Can Take a Long Time
- Export a Platform Services Controller Support Bundle
- Platform Services Controller Service Logs Reference
What to do next
Restart services on the Platform Services Controller. You can either restart the
Platform Services Controller, or run the following commands from the command line:
Windows
On Windows, the service-control command is located at
VCENTER_INSTALL_PATH\bin.
service-control --stop --all
service-control --start VMWareAfdService
service-control --start VMWareDirectoryService
service-control --start VMWareCertificateService
vCenter Server
Appliance
service-control --stop --all
service-control --start vmafdd
service-control --start vmdird
service-control --start vmcad
Managing Certificates from the vSphere Web Client
You can explore certificates from the vSphere Web Client, and you can set the threshold for expiration
warnings. Perform all other management tasks from the Platform Services Controller Web interface.
See Managing Certificates with the Platform Services Controller Web Interface.
View vCenter Certificates with the vSphere Web Client
You can view the certificates known to the vCenter Certificate Authority (VMCA) to see whether active
certificates are about to expire, to check on expired certificates, and to see the status of the root
certificate. You perform all certificate management tasks using the certificate management CLIs.
You view certificates associated with the VMCA instance that is included with your embedded deployment
or with the Platform Services Controller. Certificate information is replicated across instances of VMware
Directory Service (vmdir).
When you attempt to view certificates in the vSphere Web Client, you are prompted for a user name and
password. Specify the user name and password of a user with privileges for VMware Certificate Authority,
that is, a user in the CAAdmins vCenter Single Sign-On group.
Procedure
1 Log in to vCenter Server as administrator@vsphere.local or another user of the CAAdmins vCenter
Single Sign-On group.
2 From the Home menu, select Administration.
3 Click Nodes, and select the node for which you want to view or manage certificates.
4 Click the Manage tab, and click Certificate Authority.
Platform Services Controller Administration
VMware, Inc. 104