Aha! Found this in the hostd log file:
2012-04-06T16:02:09.156Z [4250FB90 warning 'Proxysvc Req01514'] Writing response from localhost:8089 to client failed with error N7Vmacore15SystemExceptionE(Broken pipe).
2012-04-06T16:02:09.306Z [422C6B90 verbose 'Default' opID=9571DF7F-000002FE] CloseSession called for session id=5262476a-377e-eb9a-2bed-7c00ddcd15a5
2012-04-06T16:02:09.306Z [422C6B90 info 'ha-eventmgr' opID=9571DF7F-000002FE] Event 243 : User vpxuser logged out
2012-04-06T16:02:09.444Z [424CEB90 error 'Default'] SSLStreamImpl::DoServerHandshake (42d982c8) SSL_accept failed. Dumping SSL error queue:
2012-04-06T16:02:09.444Z [424CEB90 error 'Default'] [0] error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate
2012-04-06T16:02:09.445Z [424CEB90 warning 'Proxysvc'] SSL Handshake failed for stream TCP(local=10.169.41.36:443, peer=10.0.1.174:56214), error=SSL Exception: error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate
I can see the local address is my ESXi host and the peer address is the vCenter server I'm trying to add the host to.
Any thoughts?
--db