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OsamaFattoh
Explorer II
April 7, 2026
Question

Certificate expired

  • April 7, 2026
  • 3 replies
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The Supervisor certificate has expired.

I want to generate a new one but self signed one

What are the steps to do since what I found was generation of new certificate and no documentation talks about the expired one.

Also how to make other nodes like workers, collectors, windows agents, and finally linux agent trust and use the new self signed certificate and replace the old one without corruption. 

 

    3 replies

    AEK
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    April 26, 2026

    Hi Osama

    With self signed the other nodes will not trust your FSM and this is not the recommended way.

    But in case you want to do so then here is how to do it:

    The right way to do is to sign the CSR with your private CA, and the new cert CN should be the FQDN of your FSM, and its IP as SAN (if needed).

    AEK
    Robbert4sure
    New Member
    May 1, 2026

    When the Supervisor cert expires, you usually generate a new self-signed cert on the Supervisor and then restart the related services so it gets picked up properly. After that, the key part is redistributing the new cert to all nodes workers/collectors so trust is reestablished. For agents Windows/Linux, you typically need to re-import or re-register them so they accept the updated certificate chain. Just make sure to roll it out in a controlled order to avoid trust mismatch or communication breakage.

    Robbert4Sure
    iLuca90
    Explorer
    May 2, 2026

    When the Supervisor certificate expires, you typically don’t try to reuse or repair it you generate a new self-signed certificate and roll it out cleanly. The main work is making sure all connected components like workers, collectors, Windows agents, and Linux agents are updated to trust the new certificate. You also need to properly remove or replace the old cert everywhere to avoid any connection or handshake issues. It’s kind of like a Stair Calculator setup if one step is outdated or mismatched, the whole system starts giving incorrect results.

    LarryU
    New Member
    May 2, 2026

    Nice explanation, really clear and practical approach to the whole certificate rotation process.

    LarryU