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Table Of Contents
- Platform Services Controller Administration
- Contents
- About Platform Services Controller Administration
- 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
- Understanding 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 vSphere Client
- 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
Table 1‑3. Platform Services Controller Services
Service Description
applmgmt
(VMware Appliance Management Service)
Handles appliance configuration and provides public API
endpoints for appliance lifecycle management. Included on the
Platform Services Controller appliance.
vmware-cis-license
(VMware License Service)
Each Platform Services Controller includes VMware License
Service, which delivers centralized license management and
reporting functionality to VMware products in your environment.
The license service inventory replicates across all
Platform Services Controller in the domain at 30-second
intervals.
vmware-cm
(VMware Component Manager)
Component manager provides service registration and lookup
functionalities.
vmware-sts-idmd
(VMware Identity Management Service)
vmware-stsd
(VMware Security Token Service)
Services behind the vCenter Single Sign-On feature, which
provide secure authentication services to VMware software
components and users.
By using vCenter Single Sign-On, the VMware components
communicate using a secure SAML token exchange
mechanism. vCenter Single Sign-On constructs an internal
security domain (vsphere.local by default) where the VMware
software components are registered during installation or
upgrade.
vmware-rhttpproxy
(VMware HTTP Reverse Proxy)
The reverse proxy runs on each Platform Services Controller
node and each vCenter Server system. It is a single entry point
into the node and enables services that run on the node to
communicate securely.
vmware-sca
(VMware Service Control Agent)
Manages service configurations. You can use the service-
control CLI to manage individual service configurations.
vmware-statsmonitor
(VMware Appliance Monitoring Service)
Monitor the vCenter Server Appliance guest operating system
resource consumption.
vmware-vapi-endpoint
(VMware vAPI Endpoint)
The vSphere Automation API endpoint provides a single point of
access to vAPI services. You can change the properties of the
vAPI Endpoint service from the vSphere Web Client. See the
vSphere Automation SDKs Programming Guide for details on
vAPI endpoints.
vmafdd
VMware Authentication Framework
Service that provides a client-side framework for vmdir
authentication and serves the VMware Endpoint Certificate
Store (VECS).
vmcad
VMware Certificate Service
Provisions each VMware software component that has the
vmafd client libraries and each ESXi host with a signed
certificate that has VMCA as the root certificate authority. You
can change the default certificates by using the Certificate
Manager utility.
VMware Certificate Service uses the VMware Endpoint
Certificate Store (VECS) to serve as a local repository for
certificates on every Platform Services Controller instance.
Although you can decide not to use VMCA and instead can use
custom certificates, you must add the certificates to VECS.
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