The following is a small collection of things that one should do or at least know how to do. It includes licensing, certificates, and virtual hardware.
There are several things you should do or at least know how to do.
These are operations that have to be done quite often, so it's best to know how to do them:
You can either enter a license key manually or connect to the vCenter Server or vRealize Automation to acquire the license.
If you change the database, you will need to redo the licensing:
The Packaging Signing Certificate signs all packages or exports. One is automatically generated with the Orchestrator's VMs Hostname. We will now show how to create a custom one:
If your database or LDAP is secured with SSL, which by the way isn't such a bad idea, you will need to import the certificate into Orchestrator first. To do this, follow these steps:
https://Central.mylab.local
.For almost all VMware infrastructure the import of their certificate is integrated into the workflows and doesn't need to be done by hand anymore.
If you have changed the database, you will need to do this step in order for you to use all the workflows that come with the plugins.
When Orchestrator restarts, it installs all new plugins that exist, but as the plugins haven't changed in the versions before this, updating the database leads to this little problem.
The settings we have just applied are important and need to be done in order to make Orchestrator production-ready.
The package signing, as well as the licensing, needs to be done only once, except if you intend to change the database.
Importing an SSL certificate is an action that we will encounter more often. Every time we want to establish a secure connection (SSL) between Orchestrator and another server, we first have to import this server's SSL certificate. However, most workflows in the current version of Orchestrator include an automatic import (most of the time).
Have a look at the recipe Backup and recovery in Chapter 2, Optimizing Orchestrator Configuration, to learn how to export and import the configuration.