Notification Emails triggered regarding Expired Migrated Certificate on VMware Cloud Director

Products

• VMware Cloud Director

Issue/Introduction

• System administrators receive email notifications stating that the migrated certificate for a VMware Cloud Director (VCD) cell has expired.

  Your certificate library item Migrated certificate - YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.#### - cellFQDN (id: ############, description: Migrated during cell startup at: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.#### , org: System) expired 60 day(s) ago at YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.#### [Etc/UTC].

Environment

VMware Cloud Director 10.x.

Cause

This issue occurs because the VCD cell is still using an expired certificate. The VCD system's health monitoring detects the expiration and automatically sends alert emails to the administrators.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, the certificates on the affected VCD cell must be updated or renewed.

• If the cells are using the self signed certificates, refer to the Generating Self-Signed Certificates for the VMware Cloud Director HTTPS Endpoint documentation.
• If the CA certificates are already available, refer: Change the Certificates of a Cell

Additional Information

Refer: SSL Certificate Creation and Management of Your VMware Cloud Director Appliance