Nuance Management Center

Dragon Installation Guide
Installing and binding the SSL certificate
About signed certificates
Using SSL requires that you obtain a signed SSL certificate from a certificate authority, such as GoDaddy or Verisign.
The certificate authority must be a trusted authority known to both the client computer and the server. Nuance
Management Center does not support internally generated (self-signed) certificates.
To obtain a signed certificate, you'll need to provide information to the certificate authority about your organization and
the server on which you are installing the certificate in the Certificate Signing Request (CSR). Each certificate
authority may require different information. Typically, the information can include the following:
l Organization name
l Organization location information, such as town and state
l Computer name for the server on which you are installing the certificate
l Extended Key Usage value, such as 2.5.29.37. Extended key usage further refines key usage extensions, which
define the purpose of the public key contained in the certificate.
l Key Size, such as 2048 bits or 4096 bits. Determines the length of the public key in the certificate. A longer key
provides stronger security. You determine the level of security that is appropriate for your environment.
You obtain this information from your IT department, or from the person who installed and configured your server.
For more detailed information on installing SSL certificates, see:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733791.aspx
About ports
Clients contact the Local Authenticator on the standard HTTP ports 80 and 443.
To install and bind the certificate:
1. Ensure that an SSL certificate is installed in the Personal store of the local computer for the user that the NMS
service is running as.
To add the Certificates Snap-in and view the certificates installed on the local computer, see https://tech-
net.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754431(v=ws.11).aspx.
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