Configure CA Certificates in App Volumes Manager

If you intend to register the domain type as Active Directory, then to connect securely to the Active Directory and validate the certificate, you must configure the root domain CA certificate.

Prerequisites

• You must have downloaded root certification authority (CA) certificates of the Active Directory domains. If the certificates are not in PEM (Base64 encoded) format, see the OpenSSL or similar documentation to convert the file to PEM format.

  Note:

  • When you have multiple root certificates from different domains, you can combine all the PEM formatted certificates into a single file by copying the contents of each file one by one to a single .pem file.

  • If you use intermediate certificates in your environment, ensure that the intermediate certificates are included in the certificate chain.

• In App Volumes Manager, domain controller host names that are specified in the domain controller hosts field must match the certificate host names.

Procedure

1. Ensure the name of the PEM formatted certificate file is adCA.pem.

   Note: Ensure that the SSL certificate has valid values in the Subject or Common Name.

2. On each App Volumes Manager server, copy the adCA.pem file to the /config directory where the App Volumes Manager is installed.

   The default installation location for App Volumes Manager is C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes\Manager.

3. Restart the App Volumes Manager servers.

What to do next

Use App Volumes Manager to connect securely to Active Directory Connection using LDAP over SSL (LDAPS) or StartTLS (LDAP over TLS).