VMWare Carbon Black Enterprise EDR: How to collect and upload certificates for sensor to server communications for on-prem server to hosted server conversions

Products

• Carbon Black EDR (formerly Cb Response)

Issue/Introduction

Instructions to acquire and upload on-prem console to sensor communication certificate information to Alliance 

Environment

• Hosted EDR: All supported versions

Resolution

1. Run the following command to to obtain the correct certificate information 

   tar -zcvf ~/$(hostname | cut -d "." -f 1)-certs.tar.gz /etc/cb/cert

2. Run the following command to upload file to the Alliance server 

   /usr/share/cb/cbpost ~/$(hostname | cut -d "." -f 1)-certs.tar.gz

3. Submit a support case stating certificates have been uploaded to Alliance