Owner's Manual

Using the CMC Web Interface 183
To obtain a secure server certificate for CMC, you must submit a Certificate
Signing Request (CSR) to a certificate authority of your choice. A CSR is a
digital request for a signed, secure server certificate containing information
about your organization and a unique, identifying key.
When a CSR is generated from the Generate Certificate Signing Request
(CSR) page, you are prompted to save a copy to your management station or
shared network, and the unique information used to generate the CSR is
stored on CMC. This information is used later to authenticate the server
certificate you receive from the certificate authority. After you receive the server
certificate from the certificate authority, you must then upload it to CMC.
NOTE: For CMC to accept the server certificate returned by the certificate
authority, authentication information contained in the new certificate must match
the information that was stored on CMC when the CSR was generated.
CAUTION: When a new CSR is generated, it overwrites any previous CSR on
CMC. If a pending CSR is overwritten before its server certificate is granted from a
certificate authority, CMC does not accept the server certificate because the
information it uses to authenticate the certificate has been lost. Take caution
when generating a CSR to prevent overwriting any pending CSR.
Upload Webserver key
and Certificate
Select this option and click Next to open the Webserver Key
and Certificate Upload page, where you can upload an
existing Web server key and server certificate that your
company holds title to and uses to control access to CMC.
NOTE: Only X.509, Base64 encoded certificates are accepted
by CMC. Binary DER-encoded certificates are not accepted.
Uploading a new certificate replaces the default certificate
you received with your CMC.
View Server Certificate Select the option and click the Next button to open the
View Server Certificate page where you can view the
current server certificate.
Table 5-46. SSL Main Menu Options
(continued)
Field Description