Error message when putting new certificates to VCenter via REST API

[kbollert]

Hi,

I'm trying to automate the renewal of the VCenter TLS certificate via REST API.

Getting an error message when sending the certs via curl

curl -X PUT -H "vmware-api-session-id: sessionid" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"cert":"cert.crt","key":"cert.key","root_cert":"root-ca.crt"}' https://vcenter/api/vcenter/certificate-management/vcenter/tls

{"error_type":"ERROR","messages":[{"args":["String index out of range: -1"],"default_message":"Exception found (String index out of range: -1)","id":"com.vmware.certificatemanagement.error"}]}

• 7.0.3
• Build: 20051473

Anyone ever seen this?

thx

best regards, Karsten

[maksym007]

I don't know if someone here has replaced Cert via restapi. Probably all done in a standard way via GUI or SSH. 

[lamw]

If you look at the vSphere REST API documentation https://developer.vmware.com/apis/vsphere-automation/latest/vcenter/api/vcenter/certificate-manageme..., the value for the certificate is NOT the file itself but rather the contents of the file, hence the string format