Re: Automate Certificate Renewal for DCM and Apache HTTP application

[Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim,

Certbot is certainly one option but it doesn't fill in all the blanks.  
So, that is why I wrote the application ACME for DCM (used to be LE - 
Letsencrypt for DCM).  Easy to use UI and then all of the backend is 
automated.

With a little luck, I'll push it up to the Github repo today or 
tomorrow.  It will be bundled as a .war file so you could just drop it 
into a servlet container like Tomcat or Websphere.  Trying to make the 
setup and operation as simple as possible.   I updated the the info 
website:  https://acmedcm.valadd.com/ ;  Repo push as soon as I can (at 
PowerUp in NOLA - so many distractions)

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
CISSP - MSCM
GIAC Cloud Penetration Tester
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

On 4/25/2026 10:34 AM, Jim Franz wrote:
> Found this - https://ibmi-oss-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/certbot.html -
> my first read is its many steps beyond my training.
>
> Looking for a simple solution to renewing SSL cert - having to train
> network staff with no IBM i experience.
> Pete Helgren had links to a Tomcat solution, but i need for updating the
> DCM and an Apache webserver application.
>
> Is the above solution a good way to go?
>
> Jim Franz