Recreating the Bundl.p12 Certificate if password is lost

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Method to recreate your Bundle.p12 certificate if you have lost or forgotten your certificate password. 

Environment

NCM 10.X

Resolution

• Download createbundle.pl, that is attached to this article, to your application server
• Source the voyence.conf with:

source /etc/voyence.conf

• Then run:

perl createbundle.pl $VOYENCE_HOME 'NEW PASSWORD'

• Make sure it follows the password rules per the NCM documentation:
  • The password must contain atleast:
    • One letter in upper case
    • One letter in lower case
    • One special character
    • One numerical
    • Minimum eight characters
  • Notice: The password must not start or end with a special character. Special characters that can be used for the certificate password are:
    
    • Tilde (~)
    • Exclamation (!)
    • At (@)
    • Number (#)
    • Percent (%)
       
• You should see the below 3 messages after executing the script:

Successfully created: /root/bundle.p12
Successfully extracted key from bundle.p12.
Successfully extracted root certificate from bundle.p12.

• If not, please re-run the script with a new different password.
• Once completed, copy to 

/root/bundle.p12

• on the new Device Server and proceed with the installation.
• No need to copy to existing Device Servers