Sorry, I didn't realize I had dropped the mailing list - my mistake!

I backed up the files/directories you mentioned below, then I checked on the ra-agent.pem to see if it was still valid (openssl x509 -in /path/to/ra-agent.pem -text -noout), and the ra-agent.pem cert is indeed currently valid (Not before: Aug 21 17:20:41 2019 GMT, Not After:  Aug 10 17:20:41 2021 GMT).

Based on that information, and knowing that the bad cert is valid from Oct. 6th 2017 to Sep. 26 2019, I'm going with Sept. 1st of this 2019 since all certs will see that date as valid.

The only issue I have now is getting the request ID for the expired cert; it doesn't show up in the list of certs when I do "getcert -list", I can only see it by running "certutil -L -d /var/lib/pki/pki-tomcat/ca/alias -n 'ServerCert cert-pki-ca'", and when I run that it does not show any Request ID associated for it?
Scott



From: Florence Blanc-Renaud <flo@redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2020 8:45 AM
To: Scott Z. <sudz28@hotmail.com>
Cc: FreeIPA users list <freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org>
Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Re: pki-tomcatd not starting
 
Hi,

re-adding the mailing list as the conversation could also help others.

On 8/8/20 12:06 AM, Scott Z. wrote:
> I did notice when I compare it to another IdM server in the environment,
> if I do a "certutil -L -d /etc.httdp/alias" the non-working server has a
> <DOMAIN> IPA CA certificate and a Server-Cert, but the other one that
> I'm comparing against has a "Signing-Cert" certificate in addition.  Is
> this because it's the 'Master' or whatever?  Should my 'bad' server have
> this same Signing-Cert listed?

/etc/httpd/alias only needs its own Server-Cert + IPA CA.

> Scott
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Scott Z. <sudz28@hotmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, August 7, 2020 10:44 AM
> *To:* Florence Blanc-Renaud <flo@redhat.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeipa-users] Re: pki-tomcatd not starting
> /"The interesting part is the list of expired certs on the failing node
> (is the RA cert /var/lib/ipa/ra-agent.pem expired?). Detailed
> instructions are available here:
> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3357331 How do I manually renew
> Identity Management (IPA) certificates on RHEL7 after they have expired?
> (Replica IPA Server)"/

Start by making a backup of /etc/dirsrv/slapd-*/*.db, /etc/httpd/alias,
/etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias and /var/lib/ipa/ra-agent.* (the places where
the certificates are stored).

If the RA cert is valid, you need to find a time window during which the
RA cert is already valid (date > notbefore) and the other certs are not
expired yet (date < notafter). When you have identified a proper date,
stop ntpd (or chronyd, depending on which service is used for time
synchronization), move the date back in time to the identified date,
start all the services except ntpd, then call "getcert resubmit -i
<request id>" for the expired cert(s).

Check that the cert has been renewed with "getcert list -i <request
id>", the state should display MONITORING. When all the certs are good,
you can restart ntpd and the clock will go back to the current date.

It's really important to find a date where all the certs are valid
because this ensures that the services are able to start and the RA cert
allows the authentication that is mandatory for certificate renewal.

HTH,
flo
>
> Sadly, after I log in, it's only telling me that it's "Subscriber
> Exclusive Content".  Not sure what happened with my account, I used to
> be able to access these docs with no problem but since I took a RHEL
> class a couple of weeks back now it's not working any more.  I guess
> they did something to screw up my account when I took the class. Grrrrr!!!
> Scott
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Florence Blanc-Renaud <flo@redhat.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 6, 2020 2:46 AM
> *To:* FreeIPA users list <freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org>
> *Cc:* Scott Z. <sudz28@hotmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeipa-users] Re: pki-tomcatd not starting
> On 8/6/20 12:53 AM, Scott Z. via FreeIPA-users wrote:
>> Thanks much for the assistance.  Here is where I am with your suggestions:
>> 1) Checked on the cert with "certutil -L -d /etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias -n
>> 'Server-Cert cert-pki-ca' and I see that the Validity is indeed old
>> (almost a year old actually, I assume IPA only checks it when it first
>> starts up so it didn't care that it was expired until the server was
>> rebooted?)
>
> certmonger checks the certificate validity periodically (configurable in
> certmonger.conf) and tries multiple times to renew soon-to-expire certs.
> The system probably had an issue that was not detected and the cert
> reached its expiration date.
>
>>
>> 2) ran ipactl start --ignore-service-failures
>>         a. most services started, obviously pki-tomcatd did not
>> 3) ran "kinit admin"
>>         a. was forced to change the password, but otherwise nothing happened
>> 4) Ran "ipa config-show |grep -i master
>>        a. I see that the IPA CA renewal master is a different idm machine.
>> 5) Ran "getcert list | grep -E "Request|certificate:|expires:"
>>        a.I see all certs are currently valid (none expired)
>> 6) Ran the command "getcert list" on the problem server, but I cannot
>> paste the output here because it's on an airgaped environment so while I
>> apologize for this and realize it makes things more difficult, perhaps
>> if you tell me what I should be looking for or more specifically what
>> you're interested in I can pluck that out and manually include it here?
>> So in summary, it is indeed an expired "Server-Cert cert-pki-ca'
>> certificate on the problem server, and it can theoretically be renew by
>> the Master at this time.
> The interesting part is the list of expired certs on the failing node
> (is the RA cert /var/lib/ipa/ra-agent.pem expired?). Detailed
> instructions are available here:
> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3357331 How do I manually renew
> Identity Management (IPA) certificates on RHEL7 after they have expired?
> (Replica IPA Server)
>
> flo
>
>> Many thanks!
>> Scott
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Florence Blanc-Renaud <flo@redhat.com>
>> *Sent:* Monday, August 3, 2020 9:34 PM
>> *To:* FreeIPA users list <freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org>
>> *Cc:* Scott Z. <sudz28@hotmail.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Freeipa-users] pki-tomcatd not starting
>> On 8/3/20 10:14 PM, Scott Z. via FreeIPA-users wrote:
>>> Not sure I'm sending this to the right place, but here it goes.  I
>>> inherited a FreeIPA/Identity Manager setup in an enclave (no internet
>>> access) environment that is running into problems.  There are at least 3
>>> different IdM servers running in the environment spread out across
>>> different geographical areas.  One of those areas suffered an unschedule
>>> power outage recently, and ever since we brought everything back up, the
>>> IdM server for this region is having an issue.  Please bear with me as I
>>> have zero formal experience, training, or real knowledge with IdM.
>>>
>>> Logging in to the serverv (it's a VM server, running Centos 7.5), I run
>>> "ipactl status" and it shows "Directory Service: STOPPED".  I then run
>>> "ipactl restart", and things go fine until it gets to "Starting
>>> pki-tomcatd Service", where it hangs for quite some time before failing
>>> to start and killing all the other services.  I check the log at
>>> /var/log/pki/pki-tomcat/ca/debug and I see various errors such as
>>> (forgive any mistypings, I have to manually type these in as I can't
>>> import or screen capure the logs and put them in this message):
>>> "/java.lang.Exception: Certificate Server-Cert cert-pki-ca is invalid:
>>> Invalid certificate: (-8181) Peer's Certificate has expired/"
>>> And slightly further down in the same log:
>>> "/Cannot reset factory: connections not all returned/"
>>> "/CertificateAuthority.shutdown: failed to reset dbFactory: Cannot reset
>>> LDAP connection factory because some connections are still outstanding/"
>>> ... still further down"
>>> "/returnConn:mNumConns now 3 Invalid class name repositorytop/"
>>>
>>> Assuming I have some weird certificate issue with this server in
>>> particular, I try to run a few more commands:
>>> "certutil -L -d /etc/httpd/alias"  --> returns a Server-Cert listing
>>> with u,u,u as it's trust attributes, and <IDM.domain> IPA CA with CT,C,C
>>> for it's attributes.  Comparing to a second IdM server in this
>>> environment, it seems to be missing a "Signing-Cert"?
>>>
>> Hi,
>> PKI is using the NSSDB in /etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias, and its server cert
>> has the nickname 'Server-Cert cert-pki-ca'. You should check that this
>> one is not expired with:
>> # certutil -L -d /etc/pki/pki-tomcat/alias -n 'Server-Cert cert-pki-ca'
>> | grep 'Not '
>>
>> If the certificate is indeed expired, it will have to be renewed but you
>> need first to find which IPA server is the CA renewal master. On your
>> server, force a service start and check the CA renewal master:
>> # ipactl start --ignore-service-failures
>> # kinit admin
>> # ipa config-show | grep "renewal master"
>>     IPA CA renewal master: server.domain.com
>>
>> You need to make sure that all the certificates are valid on the CA
>> renewal master:
>> (on the CA renewal master)# getcert list | grep -E
>> "Request|certificate:|expires:"
>>
>> - if the CA renewal master is not OK, please post the output of "#
>> getcert list" (without the grep) on the CA renewal master. This node
>> will have to be repaired first.
>> - if the CA renewal master is OK, please post the output of "# getcert
>> list" (also without the grep) on the failing node.
>>
>> We'll be able to help based on this information.
>> flo
>>
>>> I also did a "getcert list", and all certs it has show that they expire
>>> in the future (nothing shows as bein currently expired).
>>>
>>> I'm confused; it seems to that it is seeing an expired cert *somewhere*,
>>> but how do I track down which 'peer' the log file is talking about that
>>> has an expired cert?  Meanwhile none of the linux clients that point to
>>> this IdM server are allowing people to log in/authenticate.
>>> Many thanks for any help!
>>> Scott
>>>
>>>
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