NSX-T Data Center REST API

Generate a New Certificate Signing Request

Creates a new certificate signing request (CSR). A CSR is encrypted text that
contains information about your organization (organization name, country,
and so on) and your Web server's public key, which is a public certificate
the is generated on the server that can be used to forward this request to a
certificate authority (CA). A private key is also usually created at the
same time as the CSR.

Request:

Method:
POST
URI Path(s):
/api/v1/trust-management/csrs
Request Headers:
n/a
Query Parameters:
n/a
Request Body:
Csr+

Example Request:

POST https://<nsx-mgr>/api/v1/trust-management/csrs { "subject": { "attributes": [ {"key":"CN","value":"Jane"}, {"key":"O","value":"VMware"}, {"key":"OU","value":"NSBU"}, {"key":"C","value":"US"}, {"key":"ST","value":"CA"}, {"key":"L","value":"PA"} ] }, "key_size": "2048", "algorithm": "RSA", "is_ca": false }

Successful Response:

Response Code:
201 Created
Response Headers:
Content-type: application/json
Response Body:
Csr+

Example Response:

{ "id": "f1a858e1-fe70-41d0-a53b-32c43cec280f", "display_name": "f1a858e1-fe70-41d0-a53b-32c43cec280f", "resource_type": "csr", "pem_encoded": "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST----------END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----\n", "key_size": 2048, "subject": { "attributes": [ { "value": "Jane", "key": "CN" }, { "value": "VMware", "key": "O" }, { "value": "NSBU", "key": "OU" }, { "value": "US", "key": "C" }, { "value": "CA", "key": "ST" }, { "value": "PA", "key": "L" } ] }, "algorithm": "RSA", "is_ca": false, "_system_owned": false, "_create_user": "admin", "_create_time": 1630444576157, "_last_modified_user": "admin", "_last_modified_time": 1630444576157, "_protection": "NOT_PROTECTED", "_revision": 0 }

Required Permissions:

crud

Feature:

trust_csrs

Additional Errors: