Reference Guide

POST /x509_certificate/exchange
Description
Exchange certificates between two clusters. Add CA certificates to the trust store of each cluster and
assign roles to the client certificates. After this process, certificate-based authentication can be used
for communication between clusters. This exchange REST API can only be triggered with service
Replication_HTTP.
Parameters
Type Name Description Schema
Body
body
required
Request body.
x509_certificate_exc
hange
Responses
HTTP
Code
Description Schema
204 Success No Content
400 Invalid Request error_response
422 Operation Failed error_response
Produces
• application/json
POST /x509_certificate/reset_certificates
Description
Reset x509 certificates for one service to the initial state for the system. This is used to recover
system from an invalid certificates or private key for services like VASA provider (VASA_HTTP)
when VASA Provider certificates are invalid. This can restore the VASA Provider certificate to a new
self-signed certificate, so that VASA Provider can be re-registered with vCenter. This is valid only for
the VASA_HTTP service and requires either the Administrator, Security Administrator, or VASA
administrator role. Was added in version 2.0.0.0.
Parameters
Type Name Description Schema
Body
body
required
Request body.
x509_certificate_rese
t_certificates
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