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  1. Home
  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  3. Section IX. Managing security
  4. Managing security certificates
  5. Using external security certificates with NetBackup
  6. Remove the external certificate configured for the web server
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

Remove the external certificate configured for the web server

You can remove the external certificate that is configured for the NetBackup web server. NetBackup then uses the NetBackup CA-signed certificate for secure communication.

The API that you can use to remove the external certificate for the NetBackup web server: DELETE security/web-certificates/{certificate_id}.

To remove the external certificate configured for the web server

  1. Ensure that the NetBackup Web Management Console service is up and running.
  2. Run the following command (in a clustered primary server setup, run this command on the active node):

    configureWebServerCerts -removeExternalCert -nbHost

    Refer to the NetBackup Commands Reference Guide for more details on the command-line options.

    • In a clustered primary server setup, run the following command on the active node to freeze the cluster to avoid a failover:

      install_path/netbackup/bin/bpclusterutil -freeze

  3. Restart the NetBackup Web Management Console service.
    • In a clustered primary server setup, run the following command on the active node to unfreeze the cluster:

      install_path/netbackup/bin/bpclusterutil -unfreeze

  4. Restart the NetBackup Messaging Queue Broker (nbmqbroker) service as follows:

    On Windows:

    Go to the Services application in the Windows Control Panel and manually restart the NetBackup Messaging Queue Broker service.

    On UNIX:

    Run the following command:

    nbmqbroker stop; nbmqbroker start

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