User's Manual
Manager software administrator may create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) to submit to a
trusted third party Certificate Authority (CA) for signature. The administrator may then replace
the generated certificate with the new one. If the generated certificate is not replaced, the web
browser will prompt a user whether to trust the generated certificate when a Rack Power
Manager software client session is started.
Three tests are performed on a certificate each time a Rack Power Manager software client
connects to the Rack Power Manager software hub server:
• Does the client web browser trust the certificate issuer?
• Has the certificate expired?
• Does the name on the Rack Power Manager server certificate match the name the Rack
Power Manager software client used to access the Rack Power Manager server?
A Security Alert dialog box will appear if the answer to any of the three questions is No. To
prevent the Security Alert message box from appearing when you connect to a the Rack Power
Manager software hub server, all three questions must be answered Yes. When a Security Alert
dialog box appears, you have the following choices:
• If you click Yes, a connection will be made with the Rack Power Manager software hub
server and the Rack Power Manager software login window will appear, but the Security
Alert dialog box will continue to appear each time you connect to the hub server.
• If you click No, a connection will not be made with the Rack Power Manager software hub
server.
• If you click View Certificate, you may install the certificate; see below.
To correct certificate security alerts for client and hub server connections:
1. From the Rack Power Manager software client, open a client session; see Opening a client
session on page 10. The Security Alert dialog box will appear.
2. Click View Certificate. The Certificate dialog box will appear.
3. Click Install Certificate. See the Internet Explorer documentation for more information.
4. Once the certificate is installed, ensure that the time setting on the Rack Power Manager
software client PC is within the Valid from...to dates and that the Issued to and Issued by
fields exactly match.
Invalid to...from dates typically occur when the Rack Power Manager software is
installed on a server that is set to an invalid time. When a Rack Power Manager
software client that is set to a valid time connects to the Rack Power Manager server
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