Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter

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Automate certificate lifecycle across your datacenter PKI

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Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter is the on-premises machine identity management platform that secures and governs TLS certificates across your datacenter PKI. It enforces certificate policies by zone, manages the full certificate lifecycle from issuance to revocation, and gives security teams a single inventory of every certificate in the environment. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can issue certificates for new services, renew approaching-expiry certificates, download certificate bundles for deployment pipelines, revoke compromised certificates, and deliver compliance inventory reports — all without anyone logging into the Venafi console.

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Average time saved

14 hours

per person · per month

≈ 2 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of logging into Venafi to check expiry dates, submit renewals, download certificate bundles, run compliance reports, and clean up decommissioned entries across every team.

Schedule

What your Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs

7Agents at work

24/7Always on

Agents

Wed–Fri

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Thu

Fri

10a

11a

12p

Multi-app workflows

Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows

5Apps spanned

~11 hrsSaved / week

6Personas served

For operations

Featured3 apps

Weekly expiry sweep with automated renewal

Every Monday the agent reads the expiry tracking sheet, confirms current certificate status in Venafi, submits renewal requests for anything inside the 14-day critical window, waits for Active confirmation, and posts the renewal summary to Slack — completing what previously took the ops team two hours of manual Venafi console work.

~2 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow

Trigger·Every Monday when the weekly expiry tracking sheet is refreshed

Trigger

Step 1

Google Sheets

Read weekly list of certificates expiring within 30 days

read

Step 2

Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter

Get Certificate to confirm current expiry and status

write

Step 3

Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter

Renew Certificate for each certificate within 14-day critical window

read

Step 4

Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter

Get Certificate Status until Active state confirmed

write

Step 5

Slack

Post renewal confirmation with certificate IDs to #security-ops

Result

Renew Certificate for each certificate within 14-day critical windowPost renewal confirmation with certificate IDs to #security-ops

The win

Saved per run

~2 hrs

Runs / week

~1×

No certificate expires unnoticed across the entire datacenter estate

Driven byOperations Agent

ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

Sales
20 min / week
Manual certificate checks before demos
Sales engineers log into Venafi or rely on browser warnings to discover expired demo certificates — often discovering the problem mid-demo in front of a prospect.
Sales Agent
0 min
Agent checks demo environment certificates before every call
Every Monday the agent verifies certificate status for all demo environments and flags any near-expiry before the sales team's first prospect call.
Marketing
30 min / week
Reactive certificate monitoring for web properties
Marketing teams discover expired certificates when visitors report browser security warnings — by which time the campaign landing page has been flagging for hours.
Marketing Agent
0 min
Agent flags and renews marketing property certificates automatically
The agent scans all marketing web property certificates weekly and submits renewals for anything approaching expiry before the team even notices.
Customer Support
25 min / week
Manual TLS health spot-checks
Support teams learn about certificate issues from customer tickets reporting browser errors — reacting to outages rather than preventing them.
Customer Support Agent
0 min
Agent checks customer portal TLS health every Wednesday
The support agent verifies certificate status for all customer-facing portals mid-week and escalates any non-Active status to the security team within a minute.
Human Resources
20 min / week
Manual certificate offboarding steps
HR and IT teams manually track which certificates a departing employee owned, often leaving orphaned certificates in Venafi for months after the employee has left.
Human Resources Agent
0 min
Agent revokes and reassigns certificates during employee offboarding
When an employee leaves, the agent revokes their personal certificates and reassigns ownership of shared certificates to the replacement contact automatically.
Finance
35 min / week
Reactive payment certificate management
Finance teams discover certificate issues when payment processors reject connections due to expired TLS — causing payment outages that affect revenue and SLA commitments.
Finance Agent
0 min
Agent monitors payment endpoint certificates against SLA thresholds
The finance agent checks payment processor certificates weekly against a 45-day SLA threshold and escalates any at risk before they affect revenue-critical services.
Operations
120 min / week
Manual weekly certificate management
Ops teams spend hours each week logging into Venafi to check expiry dates, submit renewals, download bundles, and clean up retired entries — a repetitive process prone to human error.
Operations Agent
0 min
Agent runs the full certificate lifecycle every week
The operations agent sweeps for expiring certificates, submits renewals, downloads new bundles, deletes decommissioned entries, and delivers a full estate report — all without manual Venafi console interaction.
Legal
50 min / week
Manual compliance evidence export
Legal and compliance teams spend a half-day manually exporting certificate lists from Venafi, cross-referencing against policy documents, and formatting the data for the auditor.
Legal Agent
0 min
Agent compiles quarterly compliance evidence pack automatically
Every quarter the legal agent exports the full certificate inventory and policy snapshot for all regulated zones and delivers a structured evidence sheet ready for the auditor.

+ 100s of other Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter automations

Average time saved

30 hrs / person / month

Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size

8 people

Hourly rate

$35 / hr

Hours saved / week

Hours saved / year

1,400

Annual ROI

$49,000

Based on Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~3.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect using your Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter domain, Client ID from an API integration, and your username and password. Supports on-premises Venafi instances including those using self-signed certificates.

Create a Venafi API integration

In your Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter console, navigate to API > Integrations and create a new API integration. Take note of the Client ID and configure the scopes needed for the operations you want Actionist to perform.

Enter your Venafi credentials in Actionist

In Actionist, open the Apps tab, find Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter, and click Connect. Enter your Venafi domain, the Client ID from the API integration, your username, and your password.

Test the connection

Actionist runs a test call against your Venafi datacenter to confirm the credential handshake. Allow self-signed certificates if your Venafi instance uses an internal CA.

Credentials you'll need

Domain*

Your Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter domain (e.g. venafi.company.com)

Client ID*

The Client ID from your Venafi API integration (API > Integrations)

Username*

Your Venafi username

Password*

Your Venafi password

Actions

12 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

FAQs

Questions about Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter?

Go to the Apps tab, find Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter, and click Connect. You will need your Venafi datacenter domain URL, the Client ID from your API integration (created in Venafi under API > Integrations), plus your username and password. Actionist runs a test call against your datacenter to confirm the credential handshake before any certificate operations execute.

What permissions does my Venafi API integration need?

You need a Venafi API integration with the scopes matching the operations you want to automate. For read operations such as Get Certificate or Get Policy, read-scoped tokens are sufficient. For write operations including Create Certificate, Delete Certificate, or Renew, you need write and certificate:manage scopes. Set the expiration and refresh intervals for your token in the Venafi token authentication settings before creating the integration.

Can Actionist automatically renew certificates before they expire?

Yes. The Renew Certificate action resubmits a certificate request to your Venafi datacenter CA before the expiry date. You can schedule the agent to check certificate expiry dates weekly and automatically queue renewals for any certificate expiring within 30 days, ensuring you never face a surprise outage from an expired TLS certificate.

How can I get a report of all certificates expiring soon?

Use Get Many Certificates with filters on expiry date or zone to retrieve your full inventory. The agent can pull all certificates expiring within a configurable window, format a structured report, and push it to a Slack channel or Google Sheets dashboard. Scheduling this weekly gives your security team continuous visibility without manual Venafi console logins.

Can Actionist download certificate files after issuance?

Yes. Actionist can issue a Create Certificate call to Venafi, wait for the certificate to be issued, then use Download Certificate to pull the PEM or PKCS12 bundle. The agent can then push the bundle to secrets management systems, configuration files, or notification channels. This replaces the manual copy-paste workflow that introduces delays between issuance and deployment.

How do I enforce certificate policy compliance before issuing a certificate?

Use Get Policy to retrieve the certificate policy associated with a zone before submitting a Create Certificate request. The agent validates that the requested certificate subject, SANs, and key type conform to the policy — flagging non-compliant requests in a Slack alert or Jira ticket before they are submitted to Venafi, preventing rejection at the CA level.

How do I clean up certificates for decommissioned services?

Use Delete Certificate to retire certificates associated with decommissioned services. You can pair it with a CMDB or service registry read step — when a service is marked retired, the agent finds and deletes its Venafi certificate entry, preventing orphaned certificates from accumulating in the inventory and creating audit risk.

Does this integration work with certificates not issued through Venafi?

Venafi TLS Protect Datacenter manages certificates issued by your on-premises CA infrastructure. It does not support certificates issued entirely outside your Venafi environment. If you also manage certificates in Venafi TLS Protect Cloud, Actionist has a separate connector for that product. The two connectors can run in parallel agents to cover both environments.

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Weekly expiry sweep with automated renewal

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