SDDC Manager UI shows red banner for certificate expiration: "Certificates have expired. Visit Domain Management page to take action"

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation
• VMware Cloud Foundation 4.x
• VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x

Issue/Introduction

• SDDC Manager UI shows shows expired certificates red banner even though none of the certificates are expired
  
  
  
  
• This issue is observed after renewing vCenter Server certificates directly from the vCenter Server.
• SDDC Workload Domains shows the Error message "<Workload Domain Name> has <no of certs> expired certificate"
  
  

Cause

After vCenter certificate renewal external to the SDDC Manager, the certificate chain and its new expiration is not updated in the SDDC Manager.

Resolution

This is a known issue with certain versions of SDDC manager and planned to be fixed in a future release.   Since the work around requires database changes, please log a ticket with GSS, reference this KB article and we can assist with the problem.