Instead of a self-signed certificate generated in the system (standard certificate or user-defined certificate), you can use a certificate of your own to access the system’s SE Manager.
Requirement
A certificate signing request was generated in the system for the certificate (see section "Requesting an SSL certificate") and sent to a certification authority.
Procedure
As soon as the certificate signed by the CA (certification authority) is available to you, you can upload and activate it.
Notes:
When a certificate is activated on the target system, the web server is also automatically rebooted with the new certificate. A brief interruption of the SE Manager‘s connection to the system can occur.
If the web browser used (on the administration PC or local console) knows that the new certificate is trusted or knows its root certificate, no further action is required.
If the web browser does not know that a certificate is trusted, the certificate must be explicitly confirmed or imported (see the section "Confirming/importing a certificate in the web browser").
> | In the tree structure select Authorizations |
> | In the Current SSL certificate group, click Create and enable new SSL certificate. The Create and enable SSL certificate dialog box opens. |
> | Make the necessary entries. Detailed information on the entries is provided in the SE Manager help. |
> | Click Upload. The files specified are uploaded into the target system, activated immediately and displayed as the current SSL certificate. |
Downloading a CA certificate and installing it in the browser
To prevent a certificate error, you can download the SE server's CA certificate and install it in the browser.
> | Select Authorizations |
> | In the Issued by (CN) row click the Download CA certificate icon. |
After the download, you can install the certificate in your browser.
> | Open the certificate file and click Install Certificate. The browser's certificate import wizard takes you through certificate installation step by step. |