Replace your
VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle
custom certificate

If you use a custom certificate for

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

instead of default self-signed certificate, you can replace the

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

certificate.

A X509 PEM base-64 encoded certificate and private key. Verify that the private key is not encrypted.

A machine with an SSH access to

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

, and software such as PuTTY and an SCP software such as WinSCP installed on it.

Rename the certificate to

server.crt

and private key to

server.key

Open a Secure Shell connection

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

appliance as root user.

Copy the certificate files

server.crt

and

server.key

to the

/opt/vmware/vlcm/cert

folder. You can use an SCP software like WinSCP on Windows. Make sure to backup the original files before copying.

After copying the certificates, restart the

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle

proxy services to update the appliance certificate.

Restart the system services by executing the following command in the SSH session:

systemctl restart nginx

Check the status of the system services by executing the following command in the SSH session:

systemctl status nginx

After restarting the services, verify that the certificate is updated on the appliance, open a browser and go to

https://lcm-server-host

Verify that you see the new certificate in the browser.

VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.12