HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

e. In the State (S) field, enter the name of your state. This field can contain up to 128 characters.
f. In the Country (C) field, enter the name of your country. This field can contain up to two
alphanumeric characters, using the two-letter country codes.
3. Click OK. A warning message appears, indicating that the certificate is about to be modified. You can
click Cancel to abort the modify operation.
Related procedures
• Creating a server certificate
• Exporting a server certificate
• Importing a server certificate
• Synchronizing certificates
Related topics
• Server certificates
• Networking and security
• Installing OpenSSH
• Managing SSH keys
Importing a server certificate
Import a CA -signed server certificate to replace the existing server certificate in the following situations:
• You have installed HP SIM and want to replace the default self-signed certificate with a certificate
created by a third-party CA or your own internal CA.
• The integrity of the HP SIM server certificate private key is compromised.
• The existing HP SIM server certificate has expired.
CAUTION: Replacing the SSL server certificate and private key invalidates the existing server certificate
wherever it might be imported, such as browsers and the Trusted Management Servers Lists of managed
systems. Replace the previous server certificate with the new server certificate in accordance with your security
practices to return to the same level of functionality you had before.
NOTE: On Windows and Linux, this process also affects the local HP System Management Homepage
certificate and private key on HP-UX systems, it affects the WBEM Services certificate and private key.
To import a server certificate:
1. Create a CSR. See “Creating a certificate signing request” for additional information. The CSR uses
parameters from the existing certificate, including any alternative names. If you want to change those
parameters, edit the server certificate (see “Editing a server certificate”) or create a new server certificate
(see “Creating a server certificate”).
2. Submit the request to a CA. See “Submitting a certificate signing request” for more information. The
CA returns a signed certificate.
3. Import the signed certificate reply into HP SIM. See “Importing a CA-signed certificate” for more
information.
Related procedures
• Creating a server certificate
• Exporting a server certificate
• Editing a server certificate
• Synchronizing certificates
• Creating a certificate signing request
• Importing a CA-signed certificate
• Submitting a certificate signing request
174 Networking and security