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

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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 8.16