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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM DS8000
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 21, 2023

Automating the management of certificates on devices

The creation, renewal and deletion of server certificates on devices is a manual process that has to be done through the GUI. The management of this can be a lot when dealing with multiple machines and requires a reboot. In the future if, for compliance reasons, devices require a new encryption signature, this too will have to be done manually for all devices. Would be great if this can be supported in the REST API and the pyds8k python library, so that this can be leveraged via Ansible as part of the DS8K Ansible collection.

Idea priority High
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    Jul 25, 2023
    This is now available for self install on an HMC on 9.3.3 levels. See the following blog. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/storage/blogs/randy-blea1/2023/07/12/latest-updates-to-ds8900f-rest-interface-automatin
    Available on Fix Central.