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How to configure communication between ONTAP and Service Processor (SP) or BMC with Certificate Authority (CA) signed certificates

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9.5+
  • SP / BMC
  • NOT supported on the AFF-A700s platform

Description

Considerations
  • Overall best practice is to be on an ONTAP recommended release and current Service Processor or BMC firmware.
  • Preferably install a version of ONTAP that has a fix for Bug ID 1328457 which performs a validation of the CA certificate chain when the SP API Service is configured.
  • This process is non-disruptive to serving data within the ONTAP cluster.
  • The SP API service uses port 50000 by default.  It can be modified to use another port if desired.
  • The SP API provides internal communication within the cluster. 
    • If the SP API port is queried for certificates after this process is complete, the same certificate will be returned for each SP/BMC in the cluster. 

 

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