VCenter 5.1 startup failed

[ASivkov]

Dear colleagues,

I have a problem starting my VCenter service and I see in SSO log files the following:

trace.com.rsa.riat.ws.security.trust.WSTrustContract, DEBUG, <server_name>,,,,Creates and Expires time elements are not null in the RST

trace.com.rsa.riat.ws.security.trust.WSTrustContract, ERROR, <server_name>,,,,Configuration Error

If I compare with successfull startups/logins earlier I see that normally I should have:

trace.com.rsa.riat.ws.security.trust.WSTrustContract, DEBUG, <server_name>,,,,Creates and Expires time elements are not null in the RST

trace.com.rsa.riat.ws.security.trust.WSTrustContract, DEBUG, <server_name>,,,,Requested lifetime for the token is more than the allowed lifetime

...

I know that a year ago (exaclty) I was renewing the cerificates and as well changed admin password. But normally I have renewed certificates again in december, and I already tried to reset admin password using rsautil, this didn't help.

Unfortunately on this setup I do not have webclient, and I can't install it now because sso reg procedure fails with same error: configuration error.

Any help will be appretiated,

Thanks in advance,

Artyom

[StasII]

Sorry for my English.

My certificates expires on all components (services).

I have the same error in log-s.

I can`t connect to VC from any client.

VC version was 5.1.0b (pre-update 1).

I bagan update certificates by automation tool.

But after update SSO certifacates, SSO stop working,

ssolscli.cmd https://SSOserver.domain.com:7444/lookupservice/sdk

show

Intializing registration provider...

Getting SSL certificates for https://SSOserver.domain.com:7444/lookupserv

ice/sdk

Getting SSL certificates for https://SSOserver.domain.com:7444/sso-admins

erver/sdk

Anonymous execution

Return code is: OperationFailed

100

So can`t update other cert-s. But i don`t reboot server.

And in log i see same as you wrote.

I reinstall SSO service, BUT DON`T reboot server again (today i think it must be rebooted), and before reregister components (as discribe here VMware KB:    Re-pointing and re-registering VMware vCenter Server 5.1 / 5.5 and components), i run ssolscli.cmd https://SSOserver.domain.com:7444/lookupservice/sdk again after clear SSO installation, and, what a surprise, it get me OperationFailed and same error in log. It was strange.


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