Managing Certificates

You manage certificates from the vSphere Client, or by using an API, scripts, or CLIs.

You can manage certificates using different interfaces.

Table 1. Interfaces for Managing Certificates

Interface	Description
vSphere Client	Web interface (HTML5-based client). See Managing Certificates with the vSphere Client.
vSphere Automation API	See VMware vSphere Automation SDKs Programming Guide.
Certificate Management utility	Command-line tool that supports Certificate Signing Request (CSR) generation and certificate replacement. See Managing Certificates with the vSphere Certificate Manager Utility.
CLIs for managing certificate and directory services	Set of commands for managing certificates, the VMware Endpoint Certificate Store (VECS), and VMware Directory Service (vmdir). See Managing Services and Certificates with CLI Commands.