Visara SSL1000 - Manual (Page 32)

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SSL1000 User’s Manual
• VeriSign Class 1 CA Individual Subscriber-Persona Not Validated
• VeriSign Class 2 CA Individual Subscriber-Persona Not Validated
• VeriSign Class 3 CA Individual Subscriber-Persona Not Validated
To manage certificates in PCOMM, use the Certificate Management application:
Start Menu >Programs>IBM Personal Communications>Utilities>Certificate
Management
PCOMM uses a Key Database file that is password protected. The default password is
pcomm and must be changed the first time you import a certificate.
• Under the
Key Database File tab at the top, click
open .
• Select the file PcommClientKeyDb.kdb . A password dialog box opens.
- Enter the default password pcomm.
- If a confirm dialog tells you the password has expired, then click
Yes and change it.
- Enter a new password and confirm it.
- Enter an expiration time (number of days)
• Stash the password. This is required for SSL to work without prompting you
for the password every time you need to use the certificate. Check to “stash” the
password for the key database in a password file PcommClientKeyDb.sth and click
OK to finish with the password.
Once the password has been set and stashed, you can then use the Certificate Wizard:
Start Menu>Programs>IBM Personal Communications>Utilities>Certificate Wizard
which you may find easier to use.
Since these instructions deal with Certificate Management, we will continue there.
To import the CA certificate from the SSL1000, you must download it and save it on
your local drive using your web browser. Your Certificate Administrator may have
done this for you and stored it on a network drive. If so, you will receive the filename
and location from him.
To download it yourself with your web browser, point it to the SSL1000 using either a
DNS name or the IP address (eg http://SSL1000.MyCompany.Com, or
http://204.48.51.51). You should see the Visara SSL1000 Main Menu web page. Click
on the
Download SSL Certificate button. You will see a text only page with a block
of random characters that begins with —— BEGIN CERTIFICATE ——. In your
browser, save this whole web page as a text file.
• Click File.
• Click Save As.
• You can leave the title Visara SSL1000 Certificate Download if you want, but change
the Save As Type to Text File (.txt).
• Save it to a directory you can easily remember and reach, such as the Desktop.