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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
6 (Optional) Renew the Solution User certificates for the local system.
a Under Solution Certificates, select a certificate.
b Click Actions > Renew to renew individual selected certificates, or click Renew All to renew all
solution user certificates.
A message appears that the certificate is renewed.
7 If your environment includes an external Platform Services Controller, you can then renew the
certificates for each of the vCenter Server system.
a Click the Logout button in the Certificate Management panel.
b When prompted, specify the IP address or FQDN of the vCenter Server system and user name
and password of a vCenter Server administrator who can authenticate to vCenter Single Sign-On.
c Renew the machine SSL certificate on the vCenter Server and, optionally, each solution user
certificate.
d If you have multiple vCenter Server systems in your environment, repeat the process for each
system.
What to do next
Restart services on the Platform Services Controller. You can either restart the
Platform Services Controller, or run the following commands from the command line:
Windows
On Windows, the service-control command is located at
VCENTER_INSTALL_PATH\bin.
service-control --stop --all
service-control --start VMWareAfdService
service-control --start VMWareDirectoryService
service-control --start VMWareCertificateService
vCenter Server
Appliance
service-control --stop --all
service-control --start vmafdd
service-control --start vmdird
service-control --start vmcad
Set up Your System to Use Custom Certiļ¬cates from the Platform
Services Controller
You can use the Platform Services Controller to set up your environment to use custom certificates.
You can generate Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) for each machine and for each solution user using
the Certificate Manager utility. When you submit the CSRs to your internal or third-party CA, the CA
returns signed certificates and the root certificate. You can upload both the root certificate and the signed
certificates from the Platform Services Controller UI.
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