[ovirt-users] Re: Cannot log into oVirt Manager - certificate issue

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 4:03 PM Martin Perina <mperina(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 12:33 PM Gilboa Davara <gilboad(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 8:45 AM Yedidyah Bar David <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; >> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 5:09 PM Gilboa Davara <gilboad(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: >>> > >>> > Unlike my predecessor, I not only lost my vmengine, I also lost the >>> vdsm services on all hosts. >>> > All seem to be hitting the same issue - read, the certs under >>> /etc/pki/vdsm/certs and /etc/pki/ovirt* all expired a couple of days ago. >>> > As such, the hosted engine cannot go into global maintenance mode, >>> >>> What do you mean by that? What happens if you 'hosted-engine >>> --set-maintenance --mode=global'? >>> >> >> Failed, stating the cluster is not in global maintenance mode. >> (Understandable, given two of 3 hosts were offline due to certificate >> issues...) >> >> >> >>> >>> > preventing engine-setup --offline from running. >>> >>> Actually just a few days ago I pushed a patch for: >>> >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1700460 >>> >>> But: >>> >>> If you really have a problem that you can't set global maintenance, >>> using this is a risk - HA might intervene in the middle and shutdown >>> the VM. So either make sure global maintenance does work, or stop >>> all HA services on all hosts. >>> >>> > Two questions: >>> > 1. Is there any automated method to renew the vdsm certificates? >>> >>> You mean, without an engine? >>> >>> I think that if you have a functional engine one way or another, >>> you can automate this somehow, didn't check. Try checking e.g. the >>> python sdk examples - there might be there something you can base >>> on. >>> >>> > 2. Assuming the previous answer is "no", assuming I'm somewhat versed >>> in using openssl, how can I manually renew them? >>> >>> I'd rather not try to invent from memory how this is supposed to work, >>> and doing this methodically and verifying before replying is quite >>> an effort. >>> >>> If this is really what you want, I suggest something like: >>> >>> 1. Set up a test env with an engine and one host >>> 2. Backup (or use git on) /etc on both >>> 3. Renew the host cert from the UI >>> 4. Check what changed >>> >>> You should find, IMO, that the key(s) on the host didn't >>> change. I guess you might also find CSRs on one or both of them. >>> So basically it should be something like: >>> 1. Create a CSR on the host for the existing key (one or more, >>> not sure). >>> 2. Copy and sign this on the engine using pki-enroll-request.sh >>> (I think you can find examples for it scattered around, perhaps >>> even in the main guides) >>> 3. Copy back the generated certs to the host >>> 4. Perhaps restart one or more services there (vdsm, imageio?, >>> ovn, etc.) >>> >>> You can check the code in >>> /usr/share/ovirt-engine/ansible-runner-service-project/project >>> to see how it's done when initiated from the UI. >>> >>> Good luck and best regards, >>> >> >> I more of less found a document stating the above somewhere in the >> middle of the night. >> Tried it. >> Got the WebUI working again. >> However, for the life of me I couldn't get the hosts to work to talk to >> the engine. (Even though I could use openssl s_client -showcerts -connect >> host and got valid certs). >> In the end, @around ~4am, I decided to take the brute force route, clean >> the hosts, upgrade them to -streams, and redeploy the engine again (3'rd >> attempt, after sufficient amount of coffee reminded me the qemu-6.1 is >> broken, and needed to be downgraded before trying to deploy the HE...). >> Either way, when I finish importing the VMs, I'll open a RFE to add >> BIG-WARNING-IN-BOLD-LETTERS in the WebUI to notify the admin that the >> certificates are about to expire. >> > > We already have quite a lot of warnings/alters about certificates which > are going to expire soon: > > > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/TMJVAJMH5MK... > > So what exactly are you missing here? > I don't know how, but the only errors I saw in the WebUI were update related (failed to check updates on host).

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- Gilboa > >> Thanks for the help! >> >> - Gilboa >> >> >> >>> -- >>> Didi >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org >> Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html >> oVirt Code of Conduct: >> https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ >> List Archives: >> https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/CGSAB7NPWWO... >> > > > -- > Martin Perina > Manager, Software Engineering > Red Hat Czech s.r.o. >