US Patent 10432610 Automated monitoring and managing of certificates

In a computer-implemented method for automated monitoring certificate expiration, automatically periodically accessing a plurality of computing nodes in a computing system for certificate expiration of a certificate of the plurality of computing nodes. The automatically periodically accessing is provided by a central management tool of the computing system. Automatically determining the certificate of the plurality of computing nodes has an impending certificate expiration by the central management tool of said computing system. In response to the determining, automatically generating an alert, by the central management tool, that indicates the impending certificate expiration of the certificate.