HTTP Requests for Certificate Management
You can use HTTP requests to generate a CSR, retrieve, renew, or replace TLS certificates, and retrieve, create, or delete trusted root certificate chains.
HTTP Requests
The following HTTP requests show the syntax that you can use to perform the available user operations.
Note: Before you send
requests, you must authenticate with administrator credentials.
- Generate a CSR
POST https://<server>/rest/vcenter/certificate-management/vcenter/tls-csr
- Get TLS certificates
GET https://<server>/rest/vcenter/certificate-management/vcenter/tls
- Replace TLS certificates
PUT https://<server>/rest/vcenter/certificate-management/vcenter/tls
- Renew TLS certificates
POST https://<server>/rest/vcenter/certificate-management/vcenter/tls?action=renew
- Create a trusted root
certificate chain
POST https://<server>/rest/vcenter/certificate-management/vcenter/trusted-root-chains
- List trusted root
certificates
GET https://<server>/rest/vcenter/certificate-management/vcenter/trusted-root-chains
- Get trusted root
certificate information
GET https://<server>/rest/vcenter/certificate-management/vcenter/trusted-root-chains/{chain} - Delete a trusted root
certificate
DELETE https://<server>/rest/vcenter/certificate-management/vcenter/trusted-root-chains/{chain}
For information about the content and syntax of the HTTP request body, see the API Reference documentation.
HTTP Status Codes
HTTP Status Codes lists the status codes that you can receive when you send HTTP requests.
| HTTP Status Code | Description | Operations that Return the Status Code |
|---|---|---|
| 200 | The operation is successful. | All operations. You can check the returned data in the results data structure. |
| 400 | The operation is unsuccessful. |
|
| 403 | There is an authorization issue. |
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| 404 | The object you are trying to perform an operation on is missing. |
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