Managing vSphere Certificates with PowerCLI not working

[Susie82]

Hi there,

I got this little Script, I want to automate the certification renewal.

$vcenter = $global:DefaultVIServer.name

$csrParams = @{
    Country="DE"
    Email="someemail"
    Locality="moon"
    Organization="marsians"
    OrganizationUnit="xxx"
    StateOrProvince="xxx"
    CommonName=$vcenter 
}
$csr = New-VIMachineCertificateSigningRequest @csrParams
$csr.CertificateRequestPEM | Out-File $d\vc.cert.pem -Force
$vcCert = Get-Content $d\vc.cert.pem -Raw

Add-VITrustedCertificate -PemCertificateOrChain $vcCert -vcenteronly -WhatIf
Set-VIMachineCertificate -PemCertificate $vcCert -WhatIf 

 My problem, I get following error Message after 

Add-VITrustedCertificate -PemCertificateOrChain $vcCert -vcenteronly -WhatIf

Error:

Write-Error: C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\VMware.PowerCLI.VCenter\12.6.0.19600125\commands\Add-VITrustedCertificate.ps1:210:13
Line |
 210 |              Write-PowerCLIError `
     |              ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | No certificate found in the PemCertificateOrChain.

I already tried it without Whatif, same error.

The pem file is right already opened it in notepad++, why can't I load the pem file into the command?

Hope anybody can help me.

Thanks in advance

regards

Susie

[LucD]

You seem to have the WhatIf switch on the Add-VITrustedCertificate cmdlet, meaning nothing is added.

[Susie82]

Hi LucD,

even without the Whatif switch I get the same error.

regards

Susie

[Susie82]

Hi all,

just playing with different certs, the problem is the pem file I am generating. so I have to find a way to generate a working one.

regards

Susie