About this task
Certificate errors can cause problems when you try to connect to StorageGRID using the Grid Manager, Grid Management API, the Tenant Manager, or the Tenant Management API, or when you try to connect with an S3 or Swift client.
If you are accessing the
Grid Manager or
Tenant Manager using a domain name instead of an IP address, the browser shows a certificate error without an option to bypass if either of the following occurs:
- Your custom management interface server certificate expires.
- You revert from a custom management interface server certificate to the default server certificate.
The following example shows a certificate error when the custom management interface server certificate expired:

Note: To ensure that operations are not disrupted by a failed server certificate, the Expiration of server certificate for Management Interface alert and the legacy Management Interface Certificate Expiry (MCEP) alarm are both triggered when the server certificate is about to expire. As required, you can view the number of days until the current service certificate expires by selecting .