HostCertificateManagerCertificateInfoCertificateStatus_enum

The status of a given certificate as computed per the soft and the hard thresholds in vCenter Server.

There are two different thresholds for the host certificate expirations; a soft threshold (which constitutes of two phases) and a hard threshold.

Soft Threshold:

Phase One: vCenter Server will publish an event at this time to let the user know about the status, but, no alarms or warnings are raised.

Phase Two: During this phase, vCenter Server will publish an event and indicate the certificate status as expiring in the UI.

Hard Threshold:

vCenter Server will publish an alarm and indicate via the UI that the certificate expiration is imminent.

Possible values:

• unknown: The certificate status is unknown.

• expired: The certificate has expired.

• expiring: The certificate is expiring shortly.

  (soft threshold - 1)

• expiringShortly: The certificate is expiring shortly.

  (soft threshold - 2)

• expirationImminent: The certificate expiration is imminent.

  (hard threshold)

• good: The certificate is good.