Create a server certificate and signing request, Summary, The procedure – American Power Conversion AIRACPA4000 User Manual
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Create a Server Certificate and Signing Request
Summary
Use this procedure if your company or agency has its own Certificate
Authority or if you plan to use a commercial Certificate Authority to
sign your server certificates.
• Create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR).The CSR contains all the
information for a server certificate except the digital signature. This
process creates two output files:
– The file with the
.p15
extension contains the Network Management
Card’s private key.
– The file with the
.csr
extension contains the certificate signing
request, which you send to an external Certificate Authority.
• When you receive the signed certificate from the Certificate Authority,
import that certificate. Importing the certificate combines the
.p15
file
containing the private key and the file containing the signed certificate
from the external Certificate Authority. The output file is a new
encrypted server certificate file with a
.p15
extension.
• Load the server certificate onto the Network Management Card.
• For each Network Management Card that requires a server certificate,
repeat the tasks that create and load the server certificate.
The procedure
Create the Certificate Signing Request (CSR).
Perform these steps.
(Click
Next
to move from screen to screen.)
1. If the APC Security Wizard is not already installed on your computer,
install it by running the installation program
APC Security Wizard.exe
from the NetworkAIR PA Portable Air Conditioner Utility CD.