January 2021 – Nick's Container on the cloud ;)

certificate of FQDN has expired when attempting to add a product into the usage meter, specifically when using Sectigo signed certificates.

January 25, 2021March 3, 2021 - Nithin Titta

When attempting to add a product to usage meter, the product migth fail to add if it has a certificate signed by sectigo Cause: https://support.sectigo.com/articles/Knowledge/Sectigo-AddTrust-External-CA-Root-Expiring-May-30-2020 Resolution: Import root certificates to the appliance java keystone. Steps:* take a snapshot of the appliance* ssh to usage meter appliance* change user to root…

Photon Os, .local domains do not resolve

January 6, 2021August 6, 2021 - Nithin Titta

misc

VMware appliance running on photon os has mdns setup, basically due to this, certain domain extensions like .local will not be forwarded to the DNS servers for DNS resolution. Detailed information on these top-level domains can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast_DNS Should your setup have .local domains then you must edit…