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Status Planned for future release
Workspace IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware
Categories HMC/Support Element (SE)/IBM Resource Link
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 24, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Set https certificate for SSC lpar in HMC

At the moment when you start a SSC lpar in installer mode, the lpar starts with a self signed certificate and https isn't secure.  
Since connecting to the lpar via this connection is an admin connection, a direct connection between 'server' and 'user' network isn't allowed because of company policy and a reverse proxy is mandatory. The reverse proxy (IBM webseal) only allows connection if the certificate is a valid signed one. 

At this moment you can only change the certificate after the IDAA software is installed on the SSC lpar, which can only be done via the web interface. 

Beside the initial install of IDAA there are other use cases where you need to start the SSC lpar in installer mode, like moving data to other storage devices has this requirement.

Also in case the certificate needs to be renewed and there goes something wrong which results the lpar using a wrong certificate, then you are locked out. 
There is no way a HTTPS connection is possible because of a bad certificate  and the only way to solve it is via that HTTPS interface.

 

So if there is a way to set our custom certificate on the HMC for a SSC lpar,  that would solve these issues. 
Also if that is in place, please show messages during startup of the lpar about which certificate the lpar uses, so a user can verify if it starts with the correct certificate.

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