2.2.2.1. Prerequisites for Creating the Required Certificate Signing Requests
Before creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR), you must know the IP address and FQDN (fully qualified domain name) of your servers.
To list server information and change to the keytool directory
1. From the vCloud Director cell, run ifconfig (8) to list the IP addresses for this server. Record the two IP addresses that correspond to the vCloud Director HTTP service interface and the Console Proxy Service interface.
2. To obtain the FQDNs, use the command nslookup ipaddress. Record these FQDNs, which are needed for the HTTP server and Console Proxy service SSL certificates.
3. Change your directory to /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/jre/bin/keytool.
keytool is installed along with vCloud Director by default. Alternatively, you can use keytool on another computer that has a Java version 6 runtime environment installed, and then import the created Java Keystore file onto your vCloud Director server. This example assumes that you are using the keytool installed on the vCloud Director server.