Vmware, Inc.

Sridhar T Reddy

Mukund Gunti

Ratnadeep Bhattacharjee

Suresh Sundriyal

Anu Engineer

Swapnil Sham Daingade

Tushar Thole

Kalyan Ram Chintalapati

Patrick William Penzias Dirks

In a computer-implemented method for automated monitoring certificate expiration, automatically periodically accessing a plurality of computing nodes in a computing system for certificate expiration of a certificate of the plurality of computing nodes. The automatically periodically accessing is provided by a central management tool of the computing system. Automatically determining the certificate of the plurality of computing nodes has an impending certificate expiration by the central management tool of said computing system. In response to the determining, automatically generating an alert, by the central management tool, that indicates the impending certificate expiration of the certificate.

Automated monitoring and managing of certificates

In a computer-implemented method for automated provisioning a certificate in a computing system a certificate signing request is accessed from a computing node by a centralized management tool of the computing system. The certificate signing request is provided to a certificate authority by the centralized management tool. A signed certificate is accessed from the certificate authority for the computing node. The signed certificate is provided to the computing node, by the centralized management tool, such that there is automated provisioning of the signed certificate at the computing node to establish trust of the computing node in the computing system.

Automated provisioning of certificates

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Sridhar T Reddy