Uploading and activating a customer-specific certificate

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.

A certificate signing request was generated in the system for the certificate (see the section "Requesting an SSL certificate") and sent to a certification authority. As soon as the certificate signed by the CA (certification authority) is available to you, you can upload and activate it:

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Select Authorizations  -> Certificates [ -> <mu-name> (MU)], Certificates tab.

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Click Create and enable SSL certificate.

A dialog opens.

Certificate

>	Click Select file... to select a certificate file on your administration PC.

Key

If necessary, select a suitable key file. A key file is required only if the certificate was created on another system. If nothing is specified, the default key is used.

>	Click Select file... to select a key file on your administration PC.

CA certificate

If necessary, select a CA certificate file.

>	Click Select file... to select a CA certificate file on your administration PC.

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Click Upload to start the file upload.

The files specified are uploaded into the target system, activated immediately and displayed as the current SSL certificate.

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").