The CSR generated from Fleet Management doesn't have email address information

Products

• VCF Operations

Issue/Introduction

• It's required to replace self-signed certificate of VCF Operations with CA-signed one.
• The CSR is generated in VCF Operations webui page from Fleet Management > Certificates > Select VCF Operations > Click the three dots and choose Generate CSR.
• When filling in the information in "Generate CSR" page, an email address is provided (though this is not one of the required fields when generating CSR), but the email address is omitted in the generated CSR. 
• The other fields are all included in the generated CSR with no issue.

Environment

VCF Operations 9.x

Resolution

If it's required to include the email address in the generated CSR, suggest to generate CSR with openssl from command line instead.

Specify “emailAddress" field in either distinguished name or subjectAltName field. The steps in below KB can be followed: Configure a Certificate For Use With VCF Operations.