Registering the Inventory Service certificate

The Inventory Service certificate needs to be bound to the corresponding service in order for the neighboring services to trust the service and not prompt for verification. The default certificate is self-signed and not trusted by any remote machine.

Getting started

In order to proceed, we require access to the directory that holds the certificate and private key that were generated as a result of the certificate request completed earlier. In our example, the certificates are located in the C:\Certificates\SSLTool\requests\<service name> folder.

Ensure that the command prompt account has administrative access to the vCenter and local servers.

How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

1. Open the command prompt on the local vCenter server with administrator rights.

2. Navigate to the location where VMware SSL Certificate Automation Tool has been installed (in our example, C:\Certificates\SSLTool).

3. Run ssl-updater.bat.

4. From the main menu, enter 4 to update...