User's Manual Part 2

SCP-LPS20x-011-012-01H December 20, 2004
140 ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
ABOUT CERTIFICATE WARNING MESSAGES
The default certificate installed on the LPS-20x is not registered with an authority certificate. It is a self-signed
certificate which is attached to the default IP address (192.168.1.1) for the LPS-20x.
This results in the following warning message each time a web browser attempts to validate the certificate.
There are three types of possible warnings in the Security Alert:
1. The security certificate was issued by a company you have not chosen to trust. This indicates that your
browser has no knowledge of the certificate and treats it as if it cannot be trusted. The warning is caused by
not having a CA certificate in the browser that can validate the certificate provided by the LPs-20x. To elim-
inate this warning message, you can install a new certificate as described in Installing a new SSL certificate
on page 141.
2. The Security certificate date is valid. Signifies that the operating system's date is within the range of begin-
ning and end dates specified in the security certificate. Certificates have a limited lifetime and must be
renewed and replaced before they expire or else warnings will appear in the browser.
3. The security certificate has a valid name. This refers to the domain name listed in the "subject" field of the
security certificate that matches the domain name of the URL that you're attempting to go to. By default,
the name in the "subject" field of the certificate installed in the LPs-20x also becomes the domain name of
the LPs-20x and is resolved by the LPs-20x itself.
Once you comply with all three criteria, client stations will no longer get a certificate warning in their browser.