Specifications

l Your domain name instead of the first and last name
l The name of your organizational unit
l The name of your organization
l The name of your city or locality
l The name of your state or province
l Your two letter country code
7. Enter yes when prompted to confirm your new key information.
8. When prompted for the key password, enter the keystore password you
entered before.
9. Modify the owner of the keystore by entering the following command, where
mykeystore is the name of your keystore:
chown hyper9.hyper9 /etc/hyper9/mykeystore
10. Change the permissions on the keystore by entering the following
command, where mykeystore is the name of your keystore:
chmod 755 /etc/hyper9/mykeystore
11. Enter the following command, where mykeystore is the name of your new
keystore:
keytool -certreq -keyalg RSA -alias tomcat -file certreq.csr -
keystore mykeystore
12. Submit the CSR to your certificate authority (CA).
13. After the CA replied to you, copy the certificate and chain certificate to a
permanent location in the virtual appliance.
14. Navigate to the java bin folder.
15. Import the chain certificate by entering the following command, where
mykeystore is the name of your new keystore and chain_certificate_
filename is the name of your chain certificate:
keytool -import -alias root -keystore mykeystore -trustcacerts -
file chain_certificate_filename
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Adding a certificate from a certificate authority