'Error: Failed to validate use of selected JMX certificate: ERROR - Unable to establish SSL connection ....' java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out when using the Edit Endpoint Config

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

When choosing the Edit Endpoint Config on a cell in the Cloud Director user interface and changing the web server SSL certificate, choosing save results is not completing the operation and no task is created.

In the vcloud-container-debug.log, messages like this are observed:

2025-06-03 00:00:00,000 | DEBUG    | pool-jetty-760200         | CellsApiHandler                | JMX test connection probe result: class ProbeResult {
    result: ERROR - Unable to establish SSL connection: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
    resolvedIp: <Cell IP address>
    canConnect: true
    sslHandshake: false
    connectionResult: SUCCESS
    sslResult: ERROR_SSL_ERROR
    certificateChain: null
    additionalCAIssuers: []
} | requestId=<REQUEST_UUID>,request=PUT https://<URL>/cloudapi/1.0.0/cells/urn:vcloud:cell:<CELL_UUID>/accessEndpoints,requestTime=1228111113310,remoteAddress=<REMOTE_ADDRESS_IP>:10021,userAgent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 ...,accept=application/json;version 39.0.0-alpha

Cause

Browser is using a cell different then the cell being modified

Resolution

Upgrade to Cloud Director 10.6.1 where this issue has been addressed.

 

Workaround:

Force the use of the cell being changed by using a local hosts file on the client system temporary to change the certificate.