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Applying third-party Appliance Virtualization Platform certificates

About this task

Use this procedure to create, download, upload, and push third-party Appliance Virtualization Platform certificates, and push the certificates to Appliance Virtualization Platform hosts.

Before you begin

Procedure

  1. In VM Management Tree, select a location.
  2. On the Hosts tab, in the Hosts for Selected Location <location name> area, select an Appliance Virtualization Platform host.
  3. To generate CSR, do the following:
    1. Click More Actions > AVP Cert. Management > Manage Certificate.
    2. In the Load AVP host certificate dialog box, select one or more Appliance Virtualization Platform hosts.
    3. Click View/Generate CSR.

      The system displays the View/Generate CSR dialog box.

    4. Add or edit the details of the generic CSR.

      For more information, see "Creating or editing generic CSR".

    5. Click Generate CSR.

      The system generates CSR for the Appliance Virtualization Platform host.

    6. To view the status, in the Upgrade Status column, click Status Details.

      The time required for the complete process varies depending on the data on System Manager.

  4. To download CSR, do the following:
    1. Click More Actions > AVP Cert. Management > Manage Certificate.
    2. Click Download CSR.
    3. In the Load AVP host certificate dialog box, select one or more Appliance Virtualization Platform hosts.
    4. To view the status, in the Upgrade Status column, click Status Details.

      The time required for the complete process varies depending on the data on System Manager.

    5. When the system displays a prompt, save the file.
  5. Extract the downloaded certificates, and ensure that the third-party signs them.
  6. To upload and push the signed certificate from third-party CA, do the following:
    1. Click More Actions > AVP Cert. Management > Manage Certificate.
    2. Click Browse and select the required certificates for one or more Appliance Virtualization Platform hosts.
    3. In the Load AVP host certificate dialog box, select one or more Appliance Virtualization Platform hosts.
    4. Agree to add the same certificate on Solution Deployment Manager.
    5. Click Push Certificate.
    6. To view the status, in the Upgrade Status column, click Status Details.

      The time required for the complete process varies depending on the data on System Manager.