公开(公告)号：US20210075789A1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-11

申请号：US16998371

申请日：2020-08-20

Applicant: VMware, Inc.

Inventor： Ming WEN ,  Edilmo PALENCIA ,  Russell LU ,  Laxmikant Vithal GUNDA ,  Margaret PETRUS

IPC: H04L29/06

Abstract: The disclosure provides an approach for establishing authentication between components in a network. Embodiments deploying a node of a monitoring appliance in response to a request and providing a token for accessing a network manager to the node of the monitoring appliance. Embodiments include generating, by the node of the monitoring appliance, a certificate of the node of the monitoring appliance and providing the certificate of the node of the monitoring appliance to the network manager with the token for accessing the network manager. Embodiments include adding, by the network manager, based on the token for accessing the network manager, the certificate of the node of the monitoring appliance to a first trust store and providing, by the network manager, a network manager certificate to the node of the monitoring appliance. Embodiments include adding, by the node of the monitoring appliance, the network manager certificate to a second trust store.