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SHA-2 certificates are also supported.

Local User login SSL Certificate Generate a CSR and get it signed from

a trusted CA

NOTE: iDRAC7 ships with a

default self-signed SSL server

certificate. The iDRAC7 Web

server, Virtual Media, and Virtual

Console use this certificate.

SHA-2 certificates are also supported.

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SSL Server Certificates

Generating a New Certificate Signing Request

SSL Server Certificates

iDRAC7 includes a Web server that is configured to use the industry-standard SSL security protocol to transfer

encrypted data over a network. Built upon asymmetric encryption technology, SSL is widely accepted for providing

authenticated and encrypted communication between clients and servers to prevent eavesdropping across a network.

An SSL-enabled system can perform the following tasks:

• Authenticate itself to an SSL-enabled client

• Allow the two systems to establish an encrypted connection

The encryption process provides a high level of data protection. iDRAC7 employs the 128-bit SSL encryption standard,

the most secure form of encryption generally available for Internet browsers in North America.

iDRAC7 Web server has a Dell self-signed unique SSL digital certificate by default. You can replace the default SSL

certificate with a certificate signed by a well-known Certificate Authority (CA). A Certificate Authority is a business

entity that is recognized in the Information Technology industry for meeting high standards of reliable screening,

identification, and other important security criteria. Examples of CAs include Thawte and VeriSign. To initiate the

process of obtaining a CA-signed certificate, use either iDRAC7 Web interface or RACADM interface to generate a

Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with your company’s information. Then, submit the generated CSR to a CA such as

VeriSign or Thawte. The CA can be a root CA or an intermediate CA. After you receive the CA-signed SSL certificate,

upload this to iDRAC.

For each iDRAC to be trusted by the management station, that iDRAC’s SSL certificate must be placed in the

management station’s certificate store. Once the SSL certificate is installed on the management stations, supported

browsers can access iDRAC without certificate warnings.

You can also upload a custom signing certificate to sign the SSL certificate, rather than relying on the default signing

certificate for this function. By importing one custom signing certificate into all management stations, all the iDRACs

using the custom signing certificate are trusted. If a custom signing certificate is uploaded when a custom SSL

certificate is already in-use, then the custom SSL certificate is disabled and a one-time auto-generated SSL certificate,

signed with the custom signing certificate, is used. You can download the custom signing certificate (without the private

key). You can also delete an existing custom signing certificate. After deleting the custom signing certificate, iDRAC

resets and auto-generates a new self-signed SSL certificate. If a self-signed certificate is regenerated, then the trust

must be re-established between that iDRAC and the management workstation. Auto-generated SSL certificates are self-

signed and have an expiration date of seven years and one day and a start date of one day in the past (for different time

zone settings on management stations and the iDRAC).

The iDRAC7 Web server SSL certificate supports the asterisk character (*) as part of the left-most component of the

Common Name when generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR). For example, *.qa.com, or *.company.qa.com. This