Tried to follow different guides (VM as well) but the most read able I found so far is this one
http://theithollow.com/2014/08/create-vmware-ssl-certificate-requests/
Using SSL-Updater tool from VMware
After a succesfully replacement of the SSO certificate and Update Inventory Service trust to Single Sign-On, the replacement of the InventoryService SSL fails with this
[.] The supplied certificate chain is valid.
[04-11-2014 - 11:45:34,77]: Last operation update Inventory Service SSL certificate failed :
[04-11-2014 - 11:45:34,77]: openssl.exe Cannot generate Inventory Service rui.pfx - errorlevel is 1
I have seen a few others having the same issue, but no solution, so I am trying to get help here.
So far I tried to :
• recreate certificate for the inventoryService without luck
• double-checked chain.pem and rui.crt files for illegal spaces etc.
Any suggestion what to do now.
I was running into the same thing and finally got it to go through successfully. Windows - I think maybe notepad adds a bunch of ^M to the certificate files. I opened up the files in VI on a Linux machine and removed them from the files with :%s/^M//g and the way to input that is :%s/ ctrl+v then ctrl+m //g and write the file back. Once I cleared all those from the downloaded cert from my Microsoft CA the Inventory Service installed the SSL certs successfully...finally. Was driving me MAD!
I ran into a similar issue and a possible resolution can be found here: theITHollow.com Error Generating PFX
I hope this helps.