Replacing the SSL certificate of the
vCloud Availability Replicator
unregisters it from the
vCloud Availability Replication Manager
in the local and in the remote sites. To repair the registration of the
vCloud Availability Replicator
to the
vCloud Availability Replication Manager
in the remote site, you must re-establish the trust between the cloud sites. For more information, see
Re-Pair Cloud Sites
.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are prepared to follow the steps in these procedures when replacing the certificate:
Regenerate a Self-Signed Certificate
or
Upload a CA-Signed Certificate
.
Select
Appliance login
or
SSO login
and enter the
root
or the
single sign-on
user credentials.
Click
Login
.
Log in as
root
.
Generate or upload a new certificate.
Re-pair the registration of
vCloud Availability Replicator
instances to the
vCloud Availability Replication Manager
service on the local site.
Log in again to the
vCloud Availability Replication Manager
service management interface at
https://
Replication-Manager-IP-address
:8441/ui/admin
.
On the
System Monitoring
tab all
vCloud Availability Replicator
instances are
Offline
.
On the
Replicators
tab, select a
vCloud Availability Replicator
instance and click
Repair
.
Enter the details of the
vCloud Availability Replicator
instance and click
Apply
.
Appliance Password
The
root
user password for the
vCloud Availability Replicator
appliance.
SSO User Name
A user name that has administrative privileges for the local site single sign-on domain, for example
Administrator@VSPHERE.LOCAL
.
SSO Password
The password for the administrative user.
Accept the SSL certificate of the
vCloud Availability Replicator
service.
Repeat steps b to d for all
vCloud Availability Replicator
instances that are registered to the
vCloud Availability Replication Manager
service in the local site.
After you repair the registrations for all
vCloud Availability Replicator
instances, verify that no connectivity errors are reported on the
System Monitoring
tab.
In the service management interface of the
vCloud Availability vApp Replication Manager
appliance, navigate to the
Sites
tab.
Select a cloud site and click
Repair
.
Note:
You must perform this step for each cloud site.
