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Log Insight Custom SSL Cert Upgrade Issue

byArron King 04.20.2023 Aria Operations for Logs Certificates

Notes: If you are reading this after 4/30/23 and the SSL Certificates on your Log Insight deployment have expired – check out KB 92080. It contains the steps to replace the expired certificate in Log Insight. As of 4/25 – the documentation in the release notes and KB articles have…

vCenter Server Certificate Status Alarm

byArron King 09.16.2022 Certificates VCSA

Earlier this week I began receiving alarms from my vCenter regarding a Certificate Status Alarm. I had not run into this particular error before and it took me a bit of investigation to get it solved. An unusual certificate description The alert kept repeating on an hourly interval and I…

Using OpenSSL to create certificate signing request with Subject Alternative Names

byArron King 02.28.2022 Before I Forget Certificates

Now that I had replaced the self-signed certificates in my vSphere environment, I started to wonder what other parts of my homelab could use the same treatment. While I worked on this, I learned how to use OpenSSL to generate a certificate signing request with Subject Alternative Names – and…

Setup vCenter as Subordinate CA and Replace Host Certificates

byArron King 02.24.2022 Certificates VCSA

Updated – 3/23/22: Added some notes to regarding Certificate Chain Ordering after working working with a customer using a certificate exported directly from the Microsoft Certificate Management Console. I was trying to replace the self-signed certificates in my vSphere environment – for both the vCenter Server Appliance and the ESXi…

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Category: Certificates

Log Insight Custom SSL Cert Upgrade Issue

vCenter Server Certificate Status Alarm

Using OpenSSL to create certificate signing request with Subject Alternative Names

Setup vCenter as Subordinate CA and Replace Host Certificates