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Created on Jul 16, 2025

Improvement of Automatical Certificate Distribution

It is possible to distribute a new certificate with help of cert_distribute.sh  script.
This script has 3 "actions" distribute, report and cleanup.
"distribute" make automatical distribution of new ceritificate in the form of 4 schedules for each domain.
First 3 of them put the parts of certificate in one temporary file, the last one make 
gsk8capicmd_64 -cert -add .... of this certificate from temporary file above.

The schedules run appropriately periodically.

The first one problem:

Disribute script try to put the certificate in the db again after succesfull writing before.

As result you get an error 
(ANS1909E The scheduled command failed.
ANS1512E Scheduled event 'CERT_RENEW_3_LNX' failed.  Return code = ...)
 in dsmsched.log on the client site and simultaneously in the log of

./cert_distribute.sh .... -action report

you can see change by "Failed" number.

Unfortunatelly -action cleanup does not make "cleanup", this action deinstall completelly the schedules and associations for cert distribution.

I did write a script to delete associations for such nodes. It help and should be a part of cert_distribute.sh in the future to prevent such problems,
for example as new action "clean", so
./cert_distribute.sh .... -action clean

The architecture of this new action can be very simple:

For all nodes which show as "Completed" or "Failed" in report, associations with schedules for automatical distribution will be deleted.
 

Or can be  a little bit more complex:

For all nodes which have accessed the server instance, associations with schedules for automatical distribution will be deleted.
 

 

 

Idea priority Medium