Specifications

NetLinx Security within the Web Server
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5. Press the Ctrl + C keys simultaneously on your keyboard (this takes the blue selected text
within the field and copies it to your temporary memory/clipboard).
6. Paste this text into the Submit Request field on the CA’s Retrieve Certificate web page.
7. Choose to view the certificate response in raw DER format.
8. Note the Authorization Code and Reference Number (for use in the e-mail submission of the
request).
9. Submit the request.
10. Paste this certificate text field (copied from steps 4 & 5 above) into your e-mail document and
then send that information to a CA with its accompanying certificate application.
11. Once you have received the returned CA certificate, follow the procedures outlined in the
following section to import the returned certificate (over a secure connection) to the target
Master.
FIG. 65 Export SSL Certificate dialog
Certificate text field
YOU MUST COPY ALL OF THE TEXT within this field, including the -----BEGIN
CERTIFICATE REQUEST----- and the -----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----.
Without this text included in the CA submission, you will not receive a CA-approved
certificate.
When a certificate request is generated, you are creating a private key on the Master.
YOU CAN NOT REQUEST ANOTHER CERTIFICATE UNTIL THE PREVIOUS
REQUEST HAS BEEN FULFILLED. Doing so voids any information received from
the previously requested certificate and it becomes nonfunctional if you try to use it.