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GoDaddys SSL invalid on Security Server 5.1
Hello
We have for 2 months ago or something upgrades our VMware solution 5.0 to 5.1. Never should have done that.
After that – we cannot be able to get our Security server up and running with SSL (Certificate from GoDaddy)
In our environment we have: 1 Connection Server (Green light in the VMWare View Administrator Dashboard), 1 Event database (green), 1 View Composer Server (Green), 1 Transfer server (Green) and 1 vCenter server (Green) And we have 1 Security server RED
When I click on the server under Security servers I get the details up.
Name: Server02
Version: 5.1.0-704644
Status
IPSec Status: Not in use
SSL Certificate: Invalid
I have downloaded the certificate from GoDaddy – named view.domain.com.cert and the gd_iis_intermediates.p7b (IIS 7 version, Tomcat, Other +++)
No matter what I have done – it turns up red and the users cannot use https://view.domain.com
There is a lot of articles out there on this issue - but I have not found any solution. VMware did some changes on the certificate from 5.0 to 5.1 :( so the certificate that we had (was self sign) did not work after this.
Derek Seaman has a blog http://derek858.blogspot.no/2012/05/vmware-view-51-installation-part-1-view.html But no luck here.... :(
The users must first connect with VPN – then use the View client to connect to the Connection Server and local name of that server.
What can I do?
We have for 2 months ago or something upgrades our VMware solution 5.0 to 5.1. Never should have done that.
After that – we cannot be able to get our Security server up and running with SSL (Certificate from GoDaddy)
In our environment we have: 1 Connection Server (Green light in the VMWare View Administrator Dashboard), 1 Event database (green), 1 View Composer Server (Green), 1 Transfer server (Green) and 1 vCenter server (Green) And we have 1 Security server RED
When I click on the server under Security servers I get the details up.
Name: Server02
Version: 5.1.0-704644
Status
IPSec Status: Not in use
SSL Certificate: Invalid
I have downloaded the certificate from GoDaddy – named view.domain.com.cert and the gd_iis_intermediates.p7b (IIS 7 version, Tomcat, Other +++)
No matter what I have done – it turns up red and the users cannot use https://view.domain.com
There is a lot of articles out there on this issue - but I have not found any solution. VMware did some changes on the certificate from 5.0 to 5.1 :( so the certificate that we had (was self sign) did not work after this.
Derek Seaman has a blog http://derek858.blogspot.no/2012/05/vmware-view-51-installation-part-1-view.html But no luck here.... :(
The users must first connect with VPN – then use the View client to connect to the Connection Server and local name of that server.
What can I do?
Since it is self sign cert, beside prompting if there is not trusted GoDaddy cert installed, this should be transparently handled as SSL exchange. I saw this forum and mentioned a couple of pointers to note such as importing the pfx, ensuring the path of the External URL (not the internal website URL assuming there is some proxy) of the view security server is the one in the SSL certificate
http://communities.vmware.com/message/2051370
http://communities.vmware.com/message/2051370
Even a self-signed cert has the need to import the CA's certificate.
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Needed to rekey my certificate within GoDaddy - after that I follow the guide - and everything worked.
Unless someone has gone through the same difficulty aas you, the only options are to suggest you check where the certificate chain might be broken.
Check out godaddy's ssl to make sure you have their current chain/certificates.
It might be that the certificate from godaddy that is ncludes in the VMware upgrade/version includes one that does not match the one used to sign your certificate.