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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
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SubjectAltName must contain DNS Name=machine_FQDN
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CRT format
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Contains the following Key Usages: Digital Signature, Key Encipherment.
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Client Authentication and Server Authentication cannot be present under Enhanced Key Usage.
VMCA does not support the following certificates.
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Certificates with wildcards
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The algorithms md2WithRSAEncryption 1.2.840.113549.1.1.2, md5WithRSAEncryption
1.2.840.113549.1.1.4, and sha1WithRSAEncryption 1.2.840.113549.1.1.5 are not recommended.
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The algorithm RSASSA-PSS with OID 1.2.840.113549.1.1.10 is not supported.
Certiļ¬cate Compliance to RFC 2253
The certificate must be in compliance with RFC 2253.
If you do not generate CSRs using Certificate Manager, ensure that the CSR includes the following fields.
String X.500 AttributeType
CN
commonName
L
localityName
ST
stateOrProvinceName
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organizationName
OU
organizationalUnitName
C
countryName
STREET
streetAddress
DC
domainComponent
UID
userid
If you generate CSRs using Certificate Manager, you are prompted for the following information, and
Certificate Manager adds the corresponding fields to the CSR file.
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The password of the administrator@vsphere.local user, or for the administrator of the vCenter Single
Sign-On domain that you are connecting to.
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If you are generating a CSR in an environment with an external Platform Services Controller, you are
prompted for the host name or IP address of the Platform Services Controller.
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Information that Certificate Manager stores in the certool.cfg file. For most fields, you can accept
the default or provide site-specific values. The FQDN of the machine is required.
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Password for administrator@vsphere.local.
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Two-letter country code
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Company name
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