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VMware Update Manager Service won´t start because it still expected a old expired certificate.

Hi,

I am quiet new to the vmware world and it is my first forum post, so please be patience with me. I hope that i am right here.

Our VMCA root certificate expired in februar. In the beginning we had some troubles but we managed to exchange the machine certificate with a valid certificate. So we could access vSphere Client again without a certificate error message. But we weren´t able to exchange the root certificate it self. 4 months later, i may just stumbled upon the real resaon. I noticed that vCenter Backup hasn´t been running since the old certificate has expired. When i tried to do manual backup, i got the error message that the vmware update manager service isn´t running and it is not possible for me to start this service. After some digging i found out, that the service has a certificate problem and still expect the old expired certificate.

source: /var/log/vmware/vmware-updatemgr/vum-server/vmware-vum-server.log

 

 

2021-06-17T09:01:38.717+02:00 error vmware-vum-server[27803] [Originator@6876 sub=vmomi.soapStub[41]] Resetting stub adapter for server <cs p:00007f9ed85723e0, TCP:vcsa.company.local:80> : service state request failed: N7Vmacore3Ssl18SSLVerifyExceptionE(SSL Exception: Verification parameters:
--> PeerThumbprint: BB:67:FD:2B:DF:4F:B2:C1:C3:08:AC:63:C3:80:84:7E:39:11:C0:10
--> ExpectedThumbprint: FD:7F:43:2B:75:87:57:6F:21:2B:EB:0C:B9:66:03:B4:FA:35:2C:B1
--> ExpectedPeerName: vcsa.company.local
--> The remote host certificate has these problems:
-->
--> * self signed certificate in certificate chain)

 

 

 

I also figured out, that i probably  couldn´t replace the vmca root certificate because this service couldn´t start. I have already tried reset all certificates but it didn´t worked (see below). He replaces all certificates, which are visible to me, with self signed certificate but the vmware update manager service still expect the old root certificate and can not be started.

 

                 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
                |                                                                     |
                |      *** Welcome to the vSphere 6.7 Certificate Manager  ***        |
                |                                                                     |
                |                   -- Select Operation --                            |
                |                                                                     |
                |      1. Replace Machine SSL certificate with Custom Certificate     |
                |                                                                     |
                |      2. Replace VMCA Root certificate with Custom Signing           |
                |         Certificate and replace all Certificates                    |
                |                                                                     |
                |      3. Replace Machine SSL certificate with VMCA Certificate       |
                |                                                                     |
                |      4. Regenerate a new VMCA Root Certificate and                  |
                |         replace all certificates                                    |
                |                                                                     |
                |      5. Replace Solution user certificates with                     |
                |         Custom Certificate                                          |
                |                                                                     |
                |      6. Replace Solution user certificates with VMCA certificates   |
                |                                                                     |
                |      7. Revert last performed operation by re-publishing old        |
                |         certificates                                                |
                |                                                                     |
                |      8. Reset all Certificates                                      |
                |_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _|
Note : Use Ctrl-D to exit.
Option[1 to 8]: 8
Do you wish to generate all certificates using configuration file : Option[Y/N] ? : y

Please provide valid SSO and VC privileged user credential to perform certificate operations.
Enter username [Administrator@vsphere.local]:administrator@vsphere.local
Enter password:
certool.cfg file exists, Do you wish to reconfigure : Option[Y/N] ? : n
Continue operation : Option[Y/N] ? : y

You are going to reset by regenerating Root Certificate and replace all certificates using VMCA
Continue operation : Option[Y/N] ? : y
Get site nameCompleted [Reset Machine SSL Cert...]
default-site
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Don't update service default-site:c8455d6e-80b9-410e-ab73-d16042239cfb
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Updated 0 service(s)
Status : 60% Completed [Reset vpxd-extension Cert...]
2021-06-17T06:44:51.647Z  Updating certificate for "com.vmware.imagebuilder" extension

Reset status : 85% Completed [starting services...]
Error while starting services, please see service-control log for more details
Status : 0% Completed [Reset operation failed]

please see /var/log/vmware/vmcad/certificate-manager.log for more information.

 

 

My main goal is to get this vmware update manager service up and running again. I think this "ExpectedThumbprint" is the key and i need to replace it somehow but i don´t know how. I hope someone has an idear.

 

We are using VMware vSphere 6.7.0.30000 Build 14070654.

Our certificates are coming from our own internal PKI. The Root CA from our PKI is in the trusted root certificates.

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JoaquinC
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Did you fix it? How?

Thanks, regards

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