[tialaramex]

I almost sympathize but

1. Maximum cert lifetimes are falling, once upon a time you'd just pony up the cash and get five years. A year ago it was 36 months, for a few months now it's been 825 days, and there is downward pressure. So you are still going to need to renew this cert, and that means...

2. You can and should automate. Imagine buying a device in 2018 that expects you to manually input an IP address because "Eh, we could do DHCP but this was less effort (for us)". That'd be crazy right? Time to feel the same way about certificate automation.

[tbyehl]

Between Certs and Java, it's the older IPMI devices that really kill me. I have some that don't even allow for custom certs and none support that type of automation that I'm aware of. In theory these problems go away over time but most of my home servers are in the cost vs. performance-per-watt sweet spot and won't be replaced for many years.