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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
dir-cli ssogroup create
Create a group inside the local domain (vsphere.local by default).
Use this command if you want to create groups to manage user permissions for the vCenter Single Sign-
On domain. For example, if you create a group and then add it to the Administrators group of the vCenter
Single Sign-On domain, then all users that you add to that group have administrator permissions for the
domain.
It is also possible to give permissions to vCenter inventory objects to groups in the vCenter Single Sign-
On domain. See the vSphere Security documentation.
Option Description
--name <name>
Name of the group in vmdir. Maximum length is 487 characters.
--description <description>
Optional description for the group.
--login <admin_user_id>
The administrator of the local vCenter Single Sign-On domain,
administrator@vsphere.local by default.
--password <admin_password>
Password of the administrator user. If you do not specify the
password, you are prompted.
dir-cli trustedcert publish
Publishes a trusted root certificate to vmdir.
Option Description
--cert <file>
Path to certificate file.
--crl <file>
This option is not supported by VMCA.
--login <admin_user_id>
The administrator of the local vCenter Single Sign-On domain,
administrator@vsphere.local by default.
--password <admin_password>
Password of the administrator user. If you do not specify the
password, you are prompted.
--chain
Specify this option if you are publishing a chained certificate. No
option value is needed.
dir-cli trustedcert publish
Publishes a trusted root certificate to vmdir.
Option Description
--cert <file>
Path to certificate file.
--crl <file>
This option is not supported by VMCA.
--login <admin_user_id>
The administrator of the local vCenter Single Sign-On domain,
administrator@vsphere.local by default.
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