SSL Certificate Automation Tool Version 5.5 must be used with vSphere 5.5 as it is the only supported version for vSphere 5.5. This tool is essentially a collection of scripts that simplify the process of requesting and assigning certificates to VMware services within the vSphere infrastructure.
In order to proceed, we require access to a command prompt run with administrator privileges. SSL Certificate Automation Tool must be downloaded from www.vmware.com and extracted from the .zip file.
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SSL Certificate Automation Tool Version 5.5 is downloaded in the ssl-certificate-updater-tool-1308332.zip file.
If the vCenter server is a virtual machine, it is recommended that you take a snapshot to enable easy recovery, should it be necessary. If a certificate assignment fails, it will usually fail gracefully; however, there are instances when rolling back to a snapshot is the most expedient recovery strategy. In addition, the following prerequisites...