VMware Communities
MKNEULE
Contributor
Contributor

No link "Download trusted root CA certificates" on vCenter Web Client

Hi all,

we have a VMware 5.5 Infrastructure with a vCenter Appliance. Actually, the VMware CA root certificate is expired

and now we want to renew the certificate and follow the instruction in this article "VMware Knowledge Base ".

We have the problem, we see no link "Download trusted root CA certificates" on the web client.

Have anybody experiences with this problem and knows a workaround or a solution?

Best regards

Matthias

*I apologize for a possible wrong approach, is my first post in this area 🙂

5 Replies
daphnissov
Immortal
Immortal

What do you get if you hit this address manually:

https://vcenter.domain.com/certs/download.zip

Reply
0 Kudos
MKNEULE
Contributor
Contributor

Hi,

Sorry for the delay!

when I type in the URL: https://vcenter.domain.com/certs/download.zip I get nothing (I have test the URL with Firefox and Crome). When I only type in

the URL: https://vcenter.domain.com (instead the domain name I use the IP address of the vCenter server) I got the "Welcome Site".

Best regards

Matthias

Reply
0 Kudos
daphnissov
Immortal
Immortal

Why can you not pull up the same page when using the FQDN of vCenter? Do you not have dns?

Reply
0 Kudos
MKNEULE
Contributor
Contributor

Oh sorry, was my mistake, it is possible to use the dns name from the vCenter-Server. I suspect I made a dns mismatch on the first test.Now I can use the domainname, but the result is the same, I have got a empty sheet.

Reply
0 Kudos
MKNEULE
Contributor
Contributor

I am confused, my problem is, that the local CA Root certificate from VMware is expired. I don't have expected, that I must connect to the local web service on vCenter server to got a new Root-Certificate

Reply
0 Kudos