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3.

Enter information required by the Create Certificate Request section of the window to create the
SKM server certificate.

a.

Enter a Certificate Name and Common Name, for example SKM Server.

b.

Enter your organizational information.

c.

Enter the E-mail Address where you want messages to the Security Officer to go.

d.

Enter the Key Size. HP recommends using the default value: 1024.

4.

Click Create Certificate Request.

5.

Click on the newly created certificate from Certificate List, for example

SKM Server

.

6.

Copy the certificate data, from

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

to

-----END

CERTIFICATE REQUEST--–––

lines. Be careful to exclude extra carriage returns or spaces

after the data. This information will be used in step 10 of this section.

7.

In the Certificates & CAs menu, click Local CAs.

8.

Click on the CA name you created in

Setting up the local Certificate Authority (CA)

, for example

SKM Local CA

.

9.

Click Sign Request.

Configuring the system

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