PLANET IKVM-8000 - Manual (Page 56)

• Create a SSL Certificate Signing Request using the panel shown in Certificate
page. You need to fill out a number of fields that are explained below. Once this is
done, click on the button “ Create ” which will initiate the Certificate Signing
Request generation. The CSR can be downloaded to your administration machine
with the “Download CSR” button.
• Send the saved CSR to a CA for certification. You will get the new certificate from
the CA after a more or less complicated traditional authentication process
(depending on the CA).
• Upload the certificate to the IKVM-8000 using the “ Upload ” button.
After completing these three steps, the IKVM-8000 has its own certificate that is
used for identifying the card to its clients.
Warning: if you destroy the CSR on the IKVM-8000, there is no way to get it
back! In case you deleted it by mistake, you have to repeat the three steps as
described above.
Common name
This is the network name of the IKVM-8000 once it is installed in
the user's network (usually the fully qualified domain name). It is
identical to the name that is used to access the IKVM-8000 with a
web browser (without the “http://” prefix). In case the name given
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