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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
If you use OCSP for revocation check, you can rely on the default OCSP specified in the smart card
certificate AIA extension. You can also override the default and configure one or more alternative OCSP
responders. For example, you can set up OCSP responders that are local to the vCenter Single Sign-On
site to process the revocation check request.
Note If your certificate does not have OCSP defined, enable CRL (certificate revocation list) instead.
Prerequisites
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Verify that your environment uses Platform Services Controller version 6.5 or later, and that you use
vCenter Server version 6.0 or later. Platform Services Controller version 6.0 Update 2 supports smart
card authentication, but the setup procedure is different.
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Verify that an enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is set up in your environment, and that
certificates meet the following requirements:
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A User Principal Name (UPN) must correspond to an Active Directory account in the Subject
Alternative Name (SAN) extension.
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The certificate must specify Client Authentication in the Application Policy or Enhanced Key
Usage field or the browser does not show the certificate.
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Verify that the Platform Services Controller certificate is trusted by the end user's workstation.
Otherwise, the browser does not attempt authentication.
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Add an Active Directory identity source to vCenter Single Sign-On.
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Assign the vCenter Server Administrator role to one or more users in the Active Directory identity
source. Those users can then perform management tasks because they can authenticate and they
have vCenter Server administrator privileges.
Note The administrator of the vCenter Single Sign-On domain, administrator@vsphere.local by
default, cannot perform smart card authentication.
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Set up the reverse proxy and restart the physical or virtual machine.
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