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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
5 Edit the parameters.
Option Description
Description Optional description of the lockout policy.
Maximum number of failed login
attempts
Maximum number of failed login attempts that are allowed before the account is
locked.
Time interval between failures Time period in which failed login attempts must occur to trigger a lockout.
Unlock time Amount of time that the account remains locked. If you enter 0, the administrator
must unlock the account explicitly.
6 Click OK.
Edit the vCenter Single Sign-On Token Policy
The vCenter Single Sign-On token policy specifies token properties such as the clock tolerance and
renewal count. You can edit the token policy to ensure that the token specification conforms to security
standards in your corporation.
Procedure
1 Log in with the vSphere Client to the vCenter Server connected to the Platform Services Controller.
2 Specify the user name and password for administrator@vsphere.local or another member of the
vCenter Single Sign-On Administrators group.
If you specified a different domain during installation, log in as administrator@mydomain.
3 Navigate to the Configuration UI.
a From the Home menu, select Administration.
b Under Single Sign On, click Configuration.
4 Select Token Policy and click Edit.
5 Edit the token policy configuration parameters.
Option Description
Clock Tolerance Time difference, in milliseconds, that vCenter Single Sign-On tolerates between a
client clock and the domain controller clock. If the time difference is greater than
the specified value, vCenter Single Sign-On declares the token invalid.
Maximum Token Renewal Count Maximum number of times that a token can be renewed. After the maximum
number of renewal attempts, a new security token is required.
Maximum Token Delegation Count Holder-of-key tokens can be delegated to services in the vSphere environment. A
service that uses a delegated token performs the service on behalf of the principal
that provided the token. A token request specifies a DelegateTo identity. The
DelegateTo value can either be a solution token or a reference to a solution token.
This value specifies how many times a single holder-of-key token can be
delegated.
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