American Power Conversion AIRACPA4000 - Manual (Page 37)

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8. Send the certificate signing request to an external Certificate Authority,
either a commercial Certificate Authority or, if applicable, a Certificate
Authority managed by your own company or agency.
Import the signed certificate. When the external Certificate Authority
returns the signed certificate, perform these steps to import the certificate.
This procedure combines the signed certificate and the private key into an
SSL server certificate that you then upload to the Network Management
Card. (Click
Next to move from screen to screen.)
1. On the Windows Start menu, select Programs , then APC Security
Wizard , to start the Wizard program.
2. On the screen labeled Step 1, select Import Signed Certificate .
3. Browse to and select the signed server certificate that you received
from the external Certificate Authority. The file has a .cer or .crt
extension.
4. Browse to and select the file you created in step 4 of the task, Create
the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) . This file has a .p15 extension,
contains the Network Management Card’s private key, and, by default,
is located in the installation folder
C:\Program Files\American Power
Conversion\APC Security Wizard .
5. Specify a name for the output file that will be the signed server
certificate that you upload to the Network Management Card. The file
must have a
.p15 extension.
6. Click Next to generate the server certificate. The certificate’s Issuer
Information on the summary screen confirms that the external
Certificate Authority signed the certificate.
See also
See the instructions provided by the Certificate Authority
regarding the signing and issuing of server certificates.