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Status Submitted
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 3, 2025

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SP Server certificate management

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

 

Signed certificates gets shorter lifetime (down to 3 months), and intermediate ca (typically 2 years  now) gets shorter and shorter lifetime.  This adds lots of work for certificate management on SP servers.

 

We can script most of it (create request, import CA, import Intermediate CA, import certificate)

But, still we need to restart the instance, which causes noise and downtime.

 

We need a utility from dsmadmc and/or Operation Center that allows us to:

- Create cert. request

-Import CA, and intermediate CA's and trust them

-Add certificate when signed

- Commit changes and tell dsmserv to reload the certificates (probably do a sanity check before reloading)

- Delete unused certificates

 

Guess one side-effect of reloading while running is that connected node's will probably not like it alot having SSL replaced while connected to SP server.  

 

Related RFE's:

https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPF-I-3433

https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPF-I-3446

https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPF-I-3446


 

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