Dell Metered PDU LED - Manual (Page 155)

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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 suffix contains the private key of the Rack PDU.
– The file with the .csr suffix 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 suffix.
• Load the server certificate onto the Rack PDU.
• For each Rack PDU that requires a server certificate, repeat the tasks that create and
load the server certificate.
The procedure
Create the Certificate Signing Request (CSR).
1. If the Rack PDU Security Wizard is not already installed on your computer,
obtain and run the installation program ( Rack PDU Security Wizard.exe) .
2. On the Windows Start menu, select Programs , then Rack PDU Security
Wizard .
3. On the screen labeled Step 1 , select Certificate Request as the type of file to
create, and then select the length of the key to generate (use 1024 bits, which
is the default setting, or use 2048 bits to provide complex encryption and a high
level of security).