Users Guide

82 Managing and Recovering a Remote System
Generating a Certificate Signing Request
1 Type a value in the field for each CSR attribute. Table 4-14 describes what
values are valid for each required field.
The
Email Address field is optional. You may type your company's email
address, or any
email address that you want to have associated with the CSR.
CAUTION: Each new CSR overwrites any previous CSR on the firmware. Before a
certificate authority (CA) can accept your CSR, the CSR in the firmware must
match the certificate returned from the CA, or the DRAC 4 will not upload the
certificate.
Table 4-14. Required CSR Fields
Properties Description
Common Name
(CN)
The exact name being certified (usually the Web server's
domain name, for example, www.xyzcompany.com). Only
alphanumeric characters, hyphens, underscores, and periods are
valid. Spaces are not valid.
Organization
Unit (OU)
The name associated with an organizational unit, such as a
department (for example, Enterprise Group). Only
alphanumeric characters, hyphens, underscores, periods, and
spaces are valid.
Organization (O) The name associated with this organization (for example, XYZ
Corporation). Only alphanumeric characters, hyphens,
underscores, periods and spaces are valid.
Country Code (C) The name of the country where the entity applying for
certification is located. Use the drop-down menu to select the
country.
Locality (L) The city or other location of the entity being certified (for
example, Round Rock). Only alphanumeric characters and
spaces are valid. Do not separate words using an underscore or
some other character.
State (S) The state or province where the entity who is applying for a
certification is located (for example, Texas). Only alphanumeric
characters and spaces are valid. Do not use abbreviations.