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Creating a local ca – Brocade Fabric OS Encryption Administrator’s Guide Supporting Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) Key-Compliant Environments (Supporting Fabric OS v7.1.0) User Manual

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Steps for connecting to a KMIP appliance (SafeNet KeySecure)

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Creating a local CA

1. From the KeySecure Management Console, select the Security tab, then select CAs & SSL

Certificates > Local CAs.

The Certificate and CA Configuration page displays (

Figure 16

).

FIGURE 16

KeySecure Certificate and CA Configuration - Create Local Certificate Authority

2. Under Create Local Certificate Authority, enter the organization information in the fields

provided, then click Create. The example is using “SafeNetCA” as the local CA name.

The new local CA is listed in the Local Certificate Authority List table (

Figure 17

).

FIGURE 17

KeySecure Certificate and CA Configuration - Local Certificate Authority List

3. Verify the local CA status is shown as Active.