Vcenter plug-in security – Dell PowerVault MD3000 User Manual

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vCenter Plug-in Security

Accepting and Installing the Trusted SSL Certificate

The vCenter Plug-in uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to communicate securely between the vSphere client
and application server. During the vCenter Server installation process, a SSL certificate was generated for the
vCenter Server system. If this certificate has not been added to the system's Trusted Root Certification
Authorities store, you will see a Security Alert dialog box appear, as shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7. SSL Security Alert Message

To avoid this message, you can import the install generated certificate into the systems Trusted Root
Certification Authorities store as listed below:

1

Click View Certificate

2

Click Install Certificate see Figure 8.

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